Making room for poor mothers at the poetry table February 21, 2011: Sandra Simonds has struck a nerve with her blog post on Poor Poetry Mothers. The visibility of poetry mothers on the scene and on campus is so poor that it requires Simonds to set out a few facts before continuing: a) the cost of daycare, b) the pay rate for adjuncts. I have been thinking about mothers who are poets who live in poverty or close [...] by Harriet Staff