I've been writing poetry since I could read.  I had a sprinkling of published poems back before I was busy having babies.  Here's one:

http://www.newtonsbaby.com/gravity/cp799.html

My current day job is for the same insurance company where Wallace Stevens spent his career in the legal department.  I'm currently reading his Auroras of Autumn, in stolen moments between reading bedtime stories to the kids and collapsing on the couch in front of the tv with my husband. 

The poem I've posted on the submission board is not autobiographical, but I like the character that comes through in it and I'm working on another poem in that voice.

Welcome Christina. 'Loss' is a lovely poem. I especially like the technique in first three lines. The tongue is forced to slow down and the reader physically experiences the creep of Time.

Hi Christina, Love Wallace Stevens.  Bare night is best. Bare earth is best. Bare, bare/ except for our own houses huddled low
Welcome!!
Jill

This is quite amazing. That means you're in CT, I assume? Does the firm make a big deal of Stevens' having been there?

What I always wondered was this: are things so lax around there that employees have oodles of time to be poets?

;)