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Bill Ayres

Bill Ayres is the author of What Passes for Wisdom and Jesus Poems. His work has appeared in Commonweal, Sojourners, The Hollins Critic, Bird's Thumb, Sow's Ear, The Roanoke Review, The Blue Collar Review....
He works at the B&N in Chesapeake and sells his books there. People stop and ask him about things in his life. He wonders how they know to ask the questions, how they know what they know. Then he realizes they have read the poems in his books.
Be careful what you write about.