Gina, thank you, thank you for reading and being so generous!! 💚💚💚

Thank youuuuuuu, Kathy! 💗💗💗 You're so incredibly kind and I learned so much from you

This is a gorgeous and moving story, Laura. Brava!! 💓

PREACH 🙌🏻😆😭

I'm so glad you called our attention to this... Sometimes this news cycle feels, well, overwhelming 😞💗

Gah, this whole scenario also reminds me of Richard Preston's nonfiction book, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story (1994)

I responded to Sarvin directly on this thread! Thank you, Dave! 😌

Hello, Sarvin, and welcome! The St. Louis Poetry Center is amazing: stlouispoetrycenter.org - I have made wonderful friends through the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, High Low Readings (and Literary Death Matches)... WashU, UMSL, and SLU all have vibrant writers in each higher ed context too

Well, with an editor like you at the helm, I knew this book was going to be fabulous 🤩

Thank you, Andy!! 🌻🌻🌻

Happy birthday all the same. I'm sorry it's been a rough go of it, and I'm hopeful things look up soon. Also, I think it's healthy to be real when reality is hitting us. 💗💗💗

Gah, Midwestern Weird and Deep Time is the genre of champions 😍 kids-on-bikes novels and films are also rad

It's very sobering to know that my home and child's elementary school were less than 4 miles from the tornado's path 😭