Congrats, Mark and Annie!
LOL, Mark, I did wonder why you hadn't chimed in with your usual dose of reasonable pushback in a few of those conversations. Mystery solved!
We poets do tend to cluster demographically on the older and more financially secure side, and we tend to write with readers similar to ourselves in mind. So there is unavoidably more poetic testimony from that quarter in most magazines and anthologies, regardless of the topic.
I do think poets should try to be cognizant of our personal and collective blind spots, but not to the point that we stop testifying about our own realities.
I remember various iterations of the canal poem, and I look forward to admiring the final version.
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