Writing is an opportunity for the pleasure of making, and being published and paid is chocolate in the Mole. What kind of electric is it when above all that goodness someone illuminates the work and publishes praise for it?

I don’t write to hear nice things about my work but it is sparkle and melody when such words are bestowed, especially from one’s peers.

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My deep thanks and gratitude to Katy Haas and NewPages for their supportive words for my work “Lady Fine Is for Sugar,” from an unpublished manuscript, featured in the March 2020 issue of POETRY Magazine, and the anthology The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, Haymarket Books.