Timeline Of An Obscure Poet Poem by Bill Grace

When the first poem came
My English teacher shrugged
No Sylvia Plath here, attracting
Instant notice of some immense talent.
Two years later a second outbreak
The eventual base from which
First publication came.

Chapbooks have been my life blood
The first in seventy six - second, in ninety six
In 2010 the third may come
With assistance from Poemhunter.com's feedback system
A sort of poor poet's editor that at last tells me
When something has been read twice.