Published in Adroit Journal, spring 2019 If life is a river, then Melissa Crowe’s Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press) is the boat crashing along through every torrent and floating atop the calm shallows. Crowe’s poetry collection, which starts with…

Published in Miss Millennia Magazine, spring 2017 We’ve all heard the terms “introvert” and “extrovert” and we know what they mean. Most of us even know which category we fall under. Some of us are a mixture of both –…

Published in Odyssey, fall 2016 This semester, I have had the pleasure of taking a class called “Poetry for the People.” The class has focused on doing just what the title implies – bringing poetry to the people and taking…