Individual Author Record
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General Information
Pen Name: None
Genre: Poetry
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Illinois Connection
The author lives in Cary, McHenry county, Illinois.
Biographical and Professional Information
Beth Copeland Vargo received the 1999 Bright Hill Press National Poetry Book Award for her book, Traveling Through Glass. As a child she lived in Japan, India and the United States, and her poems reflect themes and traditions of both the East and the West. Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Phoebe, Rhino, and other literary magazines, and have received awards from Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, New Millenium Writings, Peregrine and Writers Digest. She is a recipient of a 2002 Finalist Award in Poetry from the Illinois Arts Council and 2001 Ethel Fortner Writer and Community Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina. Vargo holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University. She is employed as a museum curator and freelance writer.
Published Works 
- Traveling Thorugh Glass, Bright Hill Press, 2000
Titles At Your Library
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Traveling Through Glass (Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award Series)
ISBN: 1892471051
Bright Hill Press. 2000
Poetry. "The poems in TRAVELING THROUGH GLASS are as crisply separate from each other as grains of basmati rice. Each has its own personality, its own individuality whether it is about India or remembering a wallpaper from childhood. But no matter if about India or a childhood memory they are woven with startlingly apt metaphors and similes. A widow's oppressive sorrow is 'like the scent of gardenias in a closed room..." In a triumphantly elongated metaphor the Atlantic becomes a 'native ventriloquist, throws its voice into the clenched lips of an oyster, whispering/ in the tide-slurred accent of a tired Southern girl.'"
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Awards
-- Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award, Traveling Through Glass
