“Joining the WCPA last year set me on a trajectory to improve my writing and to publish.
I am grateful that it opened an opportunity first to hear a reading by the wonderful poet
Susan Roney O’Brien and subsequently to work with her. That in turn provided a chance
to join the Rosemont Poetry Workshop, to study with and learn from the excellent poets
in the workshop, and to attend monthly Thirsty Lab readings of other fine poets. I look
forward to my first reading with Thirsty Lab at the end of May. Finally of note, my first
chapbook, “For the World, She Said,” has been accepted for publication recently and will
be published later this year.“
—Kathleen Granchelli