I am excited to be one of the contributors of the book A State of Healing. It is curated by The Homemade Author. All my fellow poets have  wisdom on the page, and I have been learning from them as I read their poems. I hope I can amplify their voices.

So I was the poet laureate of Oshkosh.

I did so well they stopped the program completely. I hate emojis but imagine a winking one here.

My assigned task by Mayor Palmeri was to heal the divide between people in the community. And of course I did, but that divide has come back. But  we have the Homemade Author. He has created more than an anthology. He has created a movement where people heal through writing.

And being divided by pain from who we are meant to be from who we are, divides us as people as well. Through writing we can become strong enough to care for one another. That as I see it is Homemade Author’s mission.

From my contribution I want the reader to understand that poetry helps us find the answers to our problems.

And those answers  are   within us.