One more day slipped beneath me and left through the back door. An article I read claims we have the most willpower in the morning. One way to resurrect that power in the afternoon is...to listen to music? I was surprised by this suggestion. On the way to a meeting, I slid an Ozomatli CD into the player of my car and let it boom boom boom. Those red lights did not seem so bad with someone singing a silly dance tune about loving LA in the background.

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Deborah Ager edits 32 Poems Magazine, which has had poems appear multiple times in Best New Poets, Best American Poetry, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. She published a poetry collection, Midnight Voices, in 2009. She's received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches online poetry workshops and aims to combine interactive writing exercises, creativity exercises, and poetry writing. If you follow that link, she attempts to answer all your questions.