Irene Latham writes poems and stories from the Purple Horse Poetry Studio & Music Room beside a mountain lake in Blount County, Alabama. With more than twenty books out in the world, her latest adventure is curating poetry anthologies with her “Poetic Forever Friend” Charles Waters, including The Mistakes That Made Us (an NCTE Notable Poetry Book) and the forthcoming titles If I Could Choose a Best Day and For the Win. Read hundreds of Irene’s poems for free at irenelatham.com.