Then Missoula decided to purchase Mt. Jumbo and keep it as habitat for the animls that live there. Some musician friends asked me to join them in a spoken word tape for the local radio station. They loved my love poems to Jumbo Mountain and I loved their music. Our town did buy the mountain, its habitat and free space forever, and I had the time of my life working in the studio with the musicians. Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Anne Carson, Edgar Allen Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Auden, Adrienne Rich, Rimbaud, Sharon Olds, Jorie Graham, Jane Hirschfield, Sandra Alcosser, William Staford, Luise Gluck, Norman Dubie, Mary Oliver, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin, PabloNeruda, nature, dogs, Jumbo Mountain, yoga, Buddhism, children, and my husband, my soul mate.
Many books of poetry disappear.
They are small, they don't make the bestseller list, they receive no attention, and many poets who should be heard are not. Independent booksellers always want to know.