Hi!  I’m Shyami.  This is my third year participating in the full Poetry Marathon, and I am really excited about this one.  I feel like this will be the best yet!  I’m from Upstate New York but live in Ireland, and I am visiting my family in New York at the moment.  My two children are with me.  My brother and his wife and three-year-old daughter are visiting us tomorrow, so there will be numerous furtive sneakings away to write poetry, which will add an interesting element to a wonderful and unusual day!