My house smells like sautéed onions and fennel and sausage. My two best friends are in my kitchen, visiting town in a whirlwind of grocery shopping and cooking and running the dishwasher over and over as we dirty every pot and pan I own. My sons are eating dinner with my husband, and we’re [...]

I took a poetry workshop every semester of college starting with my second. They were usually in the evenings. After my first class, I’d see this fro-haired white dude in tight pants and a black tee shirt being all scenster and intimidating. He totally scared me.

The next semester or so, I met Nathan [...]