I never took myself seriously as a writer because I felt that my voice wasn’t valid.  Here are five poets who showed me that it is. Marilyn Nelson I first met Marilyn Nelson my senior year of undergrad at Vanderbilt University.  The poet and professor Mark Jarman (who is definitely my number 6) strongly suggested… read more

Life’s not forever, love is precarious. Wherever I live, let me come home to you as you are, I as I am, where you meet me and walk with me to the river. “Going Back to the River,” Marilyn Hacker Gertrude Stein Reading Gertrude Stein is a maddening, frustrating, and rewarding experience for me. Recently,… read more