Thank you Martin, John, and David. It is forty-two years since I decided I wanted to be a poet, started at seventeen and never wrote a decent poem until I was twenty-five. Slow learner. But now the poems come so fast I can't believe it, and I have what Dana calls "an editorial consensus," so they get published as soon as they go out. It is my hope for every young poet at the Sphere that they persevere in this unremunerative and ancient art.
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