And what is the connex between Sanchez and Bogan? That sounds pretty interesting.

hey patricia,

did you read the sanchez interviews in her collected interviews? with joyce joyce. i think that's her name. anyway, there is a cool interview in there where she talks about taking a class with bogan. if i remember right. glad to hear you enjoyed the experience. i miss you already.

dwayne

Yeah, glad to hear you had a great time at the MFA program. I've been thinking about reading May Swenson and May Sarton back to back myself. It is a trip that Sonia Sanchez often recalls Louise Bogan as her teacher that pushed her to do at least one form. Sanchez chose haiku. Dwayne-I believe you're talking about Joyce A. Joyce's collection Ijala on Third World Press. Some good stuff in there. Someone needs to do a collection on her more recent poems too. You know I love some June Jordan too. Right now, I'm just trying to read all the books that have piled up in my bedroom.