from Concerning Romanticism: As Picture Postcard, On Thanks, Heart or Head Canard, Underneath

April Bernard is the author of four collections of poetry and one novel. She has received honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry, and the Walt Whitman Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, AGNI, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. (updated 6/2010)