Craft part 2: picking back up with the Eve Ewing "sonnet," another reading is that this is a ritual that continues our of love and is accepted each time by nature of the speaker always returning to this generosity. The poem ending with 2 and not 4 lines a kind of to be continued. "I saved some cornbread for you in the skillet on the stove," becomes a chant, a love song ("sonnet" meaning "little song" in Italian), that is endless, capacious, warm, and deeply intelligent about holding another.

Craft part 1: Deciding to move in gratitude and radical generosity when it comes to talking about poems, which I love and have not loved anything else like this since I've found my way to poetry. I am hoping some of you will join me however you can in appreciating this artform. The first thing I want to share is that I do not invest in public humiliation of work that I do not like. It is venom for my spirit, is a magnet for smallness known and unknown in others, and misunderstands the opportunity of the critic: to elucidate.

I'll see what I can do:

1.) You might as well start getting your stuff together now. If you will be applying with a book, get all the information about the book now (publication date, publisher, publisher address, ISBN).

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2. If you are applying with pieces (I think you need 15 poems published in no longer than 5 years; I'm not sure how many stories you'll need for prose), get your pieces together by journal, website if online, page number, journal address (what am I missing?).