![]() (Always nice to have editor friends in high places.) I wrote my final exam in American Intellectual History in rhyme. In college, I was published not only in the Smith literary magazine, where I was a student, but also at Wesleyan and Trinity-where I had boyfriends. In high school in Connecticut, I had poetry in the literary magazine. I wrote my 7 th grade essay about New York State manufacturing in rhymed couplets, with a rhyme for Otis Elevators that I have, likewise, forgotten. ![]() Lucky for all of us I have forgotten the rest. Right next to Dreamland, across the Canal, I wrote a poem and set it to music, which I also wrote, being an overachiever even then. I was in first grade:īy the time I was in third grade, I had improved mightily. ![]() My first poem (yes my mother kept it for years) was hardly any guarantee that I would ever become any good. I have been a poet and a poetry lover all my life. Read about Jane’s involvement in Saving America’s Immigrants One Poem at a Time ![]()
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