When the first poem came <br />My English teacher shrugged <br />No Sylvia Plath here, attracting <br />Instant notice of some immense talent. <br />Two years later a second outbreak <br />The eventual base from which <br />First publication came. <br /> <br />Chapbooks have been my life blood <br />The first in seventy six - second, in ninety six <br />In 2010 the third may come <br />With assistance from Poemhunter.com's feedback system <br />A sort of poor poet's editor that at last tells me <br />When something has been read twice.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/timeline-of-an-obscure-poet/
