"Dustin Brookshire has gathered an impressive array of poetic emulations in When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton. They include free verse gestures, couplets, tercets, and prose poems. Maureen's influence shines, though is never blinding-each of the poets in this anthology takes her title and makes the poem that follows their own." -Denise Duhamel, author of Pink Lady