If a learned man scans
the work of your mind and finds
the meter lacking (unrefined?)
put a wolf in your poem.
Theresa Monteiro
Theresa Monteiro lives in New Hampshire with her husband and six children. She is a former teacher and holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. She has had poems published in The American Journal of Poetry, On the Seawall, River Heron Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Black Fork Review, Presence, The Meadow, Banyan Review, Cutbank Literary Journal, and Dunes Review. She received the Dick Shea Memorial Prize for poetry in 2019.