Good morning, everyone.  It’s not often that I introduce a brand-new poet to you in this column; in fact, this may be the very first time.

Felicity Sheehy’s name was sent to me by one of her former teachers, who offered high praise, so I took a look for myself and found it to be well-deserved.  Her chapbook (and only book so far), “Losing the Farm,” published this year, won the Munster Literature Centre’s international chapbook prize.  Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Shenandoah, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review The Common, Literary Matters, and elsewhere.  A distinguished publication record indeed for one so young (full disclosure: I didn’t ask her age).