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Maureen Thorson is a poet.
She's published three books of poems.
She's been featured in fancy literary journals from The Horseless Review to Plowshares.
If you ask poets if they're having fun writing poetry, I think you would get very mixed reactions.
I'm not sure we do it for fun in the typical sense of fun.
As a poet.
Maureen often finds herself puzzling over, you know, the fundamental nature of things.
Like, what makes a chair a chair?
Or a hat a hat?
What makes this, this, and that, that?
And asking those questions is kind of her job.
But not just because she's a poet.