Steve Nelson’s kind notes on rejections from the Paris Review years ago were massively important to my confidence as a writer, and when I heard he had left that journal to revive Northwest Review I got a submission together posthaste. 2/

I’m so happy this poem—a dear one to me, which marks the moment in my book To Leave for Our Own Country that my wife’s pregnancy is revealed—has found such a wonderful second home in these pages. 3/3