“I stand in ruins behind you / with your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps. / I love to see you naked over there / especially from the back.” So sings Leonard Cohen in “Take This Longing,” and so the 2017 Poetry Marathon kicked off. Since 2009 (less one summer when funding disappeared), I have had the great fortune to spend my summers working with teachers through the Wyoming Writing Project (WWP). This morning, I sip coffee from my WWP mug – a gift from last year’s leaders. It’s a cup I only drink from on special occasions. The Poetry Marathon is special. · The goal: Write one poem every 24 hours. · The reward: In one day, I will have a chapbook worth of poems. This was daunting (I posted my first poem at 7:59 a.m. with one minute to spare). It was engaging (I used the prompts they posted for guidance). It was cathartic (I let the words and ideas and dreams spill onto the...