There is no real separation between who April is as a poet and her role as a teacher.  Eventually, even her students begin to appear in her work. Teachering Manifesto You do this thing where you speed 66 in a 60 MPH zone with the windows rolled down–the heated air blows  your mind clean of all the…

  The following poems appeared in the chapbook, Sand River and Other Places I’ve Been from Finishing Line Press.  The book is now out-of-print, but the writer has several copies on-hand available for purchase upon request. Nineteen In the summer of 2010, my daughter turned two, the heat blanket-thick, too hot to sleep, too moist to…