Don't Read This. I Regret Sending It Already. (But Don't Forget Tomorrow's Workshop)

Kidding! Read it immediately. Jokes aside, how many of us believe,"If they really knew me, they wouldn't like me?" This email's a goodie. Felt brave. Or, unhinged. We're never just one thing, right?

So, I have this poem in my new book called Shame.

I have a lot of poems in Proof Of Life. This is a real personal triumph for me. All the decades I carried the BS story that I didn’t get to write poetry. For all the reasons. Reasons are so often just…. dumb.

Reasons I didn’t think I got to wrote poetry included, but weren’t limited to:

• not having an MFA

• …