Necessary Harm

by Vera Kroms

$14, paper

The poems in Necessary Harm are unwavering in their presumption of an original wound, one that cannot or will not heal, each imparting a newsense of fatality to lifes dailiness. Vera Kromspoems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Columbia Journal of the Arts, Margie, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review and others. She has been a finalist in the Perugia Press, Del Sol Review and the Ashland Poetry Press book contests, as well as a semi-finalist in the Colorado Prize for Poetry contest. When not writing, Vera masquerades as a programmer analyst for Tufts University.