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In her award-winning poem, Tears Really Do Burn, using fewer than 100 words, Rotan poet Debbie Toliver encapsulates feelings of betrayal, temptation, agony, and heartbreak in the imagery of the painful evoking of a tear.
Rotan poet Debbie Toliver began actively writing poetry in 2015 to cope with the death of her sister, Kay, and while her work has found its way into poetry books for the last six years, the publication of her recent work also earned top honors in Eber & Wein Publishing National Amateur Poetry Competition.
Toliver said she didn’t know she had taken third place in the competition until the…
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