Ron Hayes
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Ron Hayes teaches Learning Support English classes, coaches football, and writes poems at East High School in Erie, Pennsylvania. His poetry has appeared in print and online here and there. For the past two years he has been named the Staff Poet Laureate of the School District of the City of Erie. Not that anyone's noticed.
His poem was written in response to a bonus essay question on an exam in an undergraduate poetry class taught at Penn State Erie by the poet Alan Michael Parker. The bonus question itself appears as the title of the poem. Apologies to Miss Dickinson.
Winning Entry: Who Wins At Monopoly: Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson?
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2007, Finalist
