Featured poem: My Mistakes Come from Not Paying Attention by Matthew Siegel 

Featured topics: creativity castles, bricks, things you can take on an airplane, smoking sections, paying attention, pistachios, mono summer, school assemblies, and high school improv

Poem read with permission from the author. 

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