Typos should never happen in poems!!! People wonder whether it’s poetic license – they say to me, “I think maybe there’s a typo in your poem.” A typo can ruin the whole experience of reading a poem.

There was a typo in my poem yesterday. I caught it right after I published it, and fixed it on my blogs, but the email had already gone out. I realize as I write this that there are things I could do, like schedule for the poem to be published later. But I’m already at the edge with the technology, typing my poems out with two fingers on my phone…. not confident that I would catch it in time anyway (this is what I sound like when I ramble, which I generally don’t let myself do in poems.)

(Well, as long as I am rambling: I got put off Emily Dickinson by a typo in a pale purple mimeograph handout in eighth grade – “how dreary to be comebody (sic)” ) – But honestly, I don’t think she would’ve been my favorite, anyway…

Anyway, I’m very sorry about yesterday’s typo, especially because I really liked that poem. FYI, for those of you who get my poems via email, if you suspect a typo, you can click on the blue title, which will take you to my blog , where hopefully I will have fixed it.

Thank you all so much for reading my poems – it completes the loop for me.