The recent acceptance of two poems of mine by Poet Lore, like the two poems of mine recently published by The Normal School, reassures me that there are journals willing to publish work that in a previous era would be censored and/or repressed. Whether or not many might still consider the themes of these poems too controversial to accept them, I know now that if I am brave enough to write them (and, of course, if I can write them well enough), there will be editors willing to publish them.