__Chicks Dig Poetry__

  I've grieved this year. I know you have too. I lost a dear mentor . The program in which I taught closed down . I came close to gettin...

I woke up to a flurry of notes from folks excited that my poem, "The Piano Speaks" (part of my second collection, I Was the Jukebo...

First off, full disclosure: I had to request that we call it "The End of an MFA." They'd titled it "The End of the MFA,...