A travel ad in The New Yorker provides the inspiration for this poem selected from the debut collection of Kerri Webster. Webster teaches poetry writing at Boise State University and through the Log Cabin Literary Center's Writers in the Schools program.
To mark National Poetry Month, NPR.org is featuring a series of newly published works selected by the Academy of American Poets. Learn more about this and other titles at the academy's New Spring Books list.
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