Life is one long dance, whether you already know the steps or learn them as you go.
Joseph Stroud has published five collections of poetry, his most recent is Of This World; New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) His many awards include a Pushcart Prize, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Witter Bynner Fellowship in poetry from the Library of Congress. Permission granted by author to read poem.
