Iowa    She said that she always wanted to be a poet, but I can tell deep down all she really wanted was to be somebody's poem.

blood bank    poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private …

Rock Island    "I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still" -Sylvia Plath (1948)

Portugal    They told me that a love like this was impossible to handle.