Dustin Brookshire brings twenty-three poets together to pay tribute to Maureen Seaton who passed away in August 2023. Each poet emulates Seaton's classic poem, "When...

Dustin Brookshire brings twenty-three poets together to pay tribute to Maureen Seaton who passed away in August 2023. Each poet emulates Seaton's classic poem, "When I Was Straight," sharing her/his/their own story in a poem of the same name. Join these poets in celebrating the legacy of Maureen Seaton.

"Dustin Brookshire has gathered an impressive array of poetic emulations in When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton. They include free verse gestures, couplets, tercets, and prose poems. Maureen's influence shines, though is never blinding-each of the poets in this anthology takes her title and makes the poem that follows their own." -Denise Duhamel, author of Pink Lady