Today’s poem is “Stuff” by Megan Grumbling . Her first book, Booker’s Point , was the winner of the 2017 Maine Book Award for Poetry and the 2015 Vassar Miller Prize. She is also the librettist of the spoken opera Persephone in the Late Anthropocene , a co-creation with the late composer Denis Nye, which premiered in 2017 at SPACE Gallery.