Dear Fellow Poets and Poetry Lovers, I invite you to honor an 8-year-old little girl named Jayla, who happens to have been the great-granddaughter of Linda Hogan, a woman whose body of work as a poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist has been such a gift to us all over so many years. In November, Jayla was was attacked and killed by a pack of feral dogs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The horror of Jayla’s death has understandably brought Linda almost unimaginable sorrow. But this invitation is not to benefit Linda, at least not directly.Read More