by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

Like a child who says tickle me, tickle me, yet burns in her gut. Why does anyone want something that hurts so much?

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Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, University of Georgia Meigs Professor of Education, is the author of The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook, Imperfect Tense (poems) and five other books on the arts of language and education. Recipient of numerous NEA Big Read Grants, a NEA Distinguished Fellowship, Hambidge Residency Award, and the Beckman award, her poems, translations, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Georgia Review, Bitter Southerner, Lilith, Poet Lore, Rattle, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Hadassah, Plume and elsewhere.