I came to know Alison McGhee’s work several years ago, though it wasn’t yet through any of her many published books. My daughter-in-law asked Alison to write a haiku for me through Haiku for You, a project where Alison writes a haiku about someone in response to their photograph. She donates all proceeds to Life and Hope Haiti, a nonprofit which runs the Eben Ezer School, educating more than three hundred children in the rural town of Milot in northern Haiti.

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