Two books that she loved writing are "Who Named Their Pony Macaroni?: Poems About White House Pets," (“because it was fun to research this aspect of American history”) and "Feel the Beat!: ...

The epigraph to the book is an annoying and dismissive comment by an editor at a major magazine that says he’s completely uninterested in poems about mothers or poems with the word mother in them.

This poem honors moments that seem ordinary but mean everything to a mother: The wait is over. Nine months seemed like an eternity, but now I hold you in my arms. I will protect you. I will not ...

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