The impetus for this poem is in the title: a first-year writing student literally asked this question, which I found both obvious and difficult to explain. The answers I gave her, and those I didn’t, are in this poem.
Juliana Gray’s third poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017). Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Atticus Review, Feral, Thimble Lit, and elsewhere. An Alabama native, she lives in western New York and teaches at Alfred University.
