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This poem is from the chapbook Emerald Echoes by Dorothy Teevan Doyle, and is available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/emerald-echoes-by-dorothy-doyle/
Dorothy Doyle returned to graduate school at the beginning of Covid at the age of 66. Over the course of the subsequent five years, she completed a Master’s in English followed by an MFA in Creative Writing. Her short story “A Response to Prozac Nation: A Mother’s Perspective” received the award for excellence in feminist/multicultural scholarship from The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching, and her review of Muse Found in a Colonized Body by Yesenia Montilla was published in The Rumpus. This is her first poetry collection. Dorothy lives by the Jersey Shore with her husband Mark, her black lab Margaret Mary, named for a favorite grammar school nun, and her shepherd-boxer mix, Willow. She used to sing in her church choir but had to retire after admitting to the choirmaster she hadn’t been to confession in 40 years
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