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Women Who Run With The Wolves by Dr. Pinkola Estes made a deep impression on me. I understand this is your debut poetry collection and Wolf Woman & Other Poems was a work in progress over a number of years. How did your collection develop? Writing has been a lifeline for me. I write poems to understand, start conversations, and for special occasions. Over the years, my collection grew. As I prepared my memoir, I began to organize and select poems. This sparked creative embers and resulted in a number of new poems. Is Wolf Woman & Other Poems a companion book to your memoir, Moments in Flight? How so? Wolf Woman completes and fills in the narrative arc presented in Moments in Flight, and can stand alone or be a companion piece. Do you have a favorite from your collection? Which one is it and why? The four poems (I figured out the source of my tension headaches, It seemed as though the weather was conspiring, You were a private man, and You’ve been gone a year) I wrote for my cousin who succumbed from AIDS in 1983, before the age of thirty, during a time of sanctioned homophobia. His loss pushed me out of my comfort zone, ushered in a re- examination of my life, and prompted me to dream, reach for more, and take chances.
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