Poetry Lover, for the sake of being clear with you [In conversation with Alice Wirth Gray’s “On a Nineteenth Century Color Lithograph of Red Riding Hood by the Artist J.H.,” from What The Poor Eat (1993)] By Clara ElizabethIf we are here constructing narrativesI’m a much better story-teller than you are.My grandmother was a poet, taught by Langston Hughes.It was more like this:I was Little Red …
