Resumé

I am not a Breadloaf fellow and I haven't been to Sewanee adoration or fame are not my cup or tea. The Academy of American Poets doesn't recognize my name no MFA or Guggenheim I'll never be poet laureate but for me, that's fine. It's just, I write because I must. At 20 my art sprouted midst concrete and steel nourished by the Muse, desperation, but powerful, real having heart and my poetry isn't less because it got its start in prison presses, small newsletters. a few anthologies- but without excesses quietly groomd, not flaunted there, slowly like some jungle flower it bloomed - proud, undaunted. * The references in the first stanza are all to very prestigious writer's conferences and grants here in the U.S.