Molly Arden, Guest Blogger May 15-21

This week we welcome Molly Arden as our guest author.  Molly enjoys writing poems while walking. She has led a peripatetic life -- at various times she has lived in each of the New England states plus Florida and Arizona. At 19 she was a junior finalist for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. As a sophomore in college she and three friends developed a brand of "Bircher muesli" cereal that blended the Swiss (Familia) type with American hippie granola. The scheme proved a success. And when she and her friends sold their shares to Kellogg's, she was able to live on the proceeds for five years in Cleveland where she learned Latin and began writing poetry.  She went to graduate school at Cornell for one year and translated Catullus. In 2002 she served as associate editor on the "F-U" anthology David Lehman edited for Slope Editions. With Reb Livingston she is a founding editor of  No Tell Motel.  She blogs over at molly arden says so.  She has had a kindergarden crush Jim Cummins since reading his poem about violins and violence.

Welcome, Molly.

-- sdh