Review, and the 2004-05 Cave Canem collections. A former WriterCorps and River of Words Project instructor, she was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Cave Canem, and in 2010 co-hosted Poet’s Corner, a program on local radio station WPFW. She earned a master of arts degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and was awarded an Artist Fellowship grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2013. While her pantoum below focuses on what “happens every year” in October, the “icy surge” she speaks of knows no season.