Let’s start the year with a new poem from Joy S. Mahar: “At the Opera, My Six-Year-Old Daughter Observes a Theme.” It is a brief poem with a directness that stuck with me:
As a reminder, submissions are now open: https://michiganpoet.submittable.com/submit. I look forward to reading your work.
All my best,
Michael Hylton
Editor of The Michigan Poet
The Michigan Poet 
Interested in me doing an interview?
Here’s a sample:http://thebookendsreview.com/2017/03/15/interview-w-cristina-deptula/
I edited the 3rd ed. of Michigan Authors, last print ed. before it became a Library of MI & MAME website and contributed early on to MP.
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