<p>Carey Link's most recent poetry sequence <strong>I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net</strong> a finalist in the 2019 Blue Light Press chapbook contest is a personal introspective exploration of the experience of living and coping with metastatic cancer.&nbsp;In the book Link reflects themes of love perseverance and coping with mortality.&nbsp;&nbsp;In these poems Link expresses an appreciation for life communicating to readers that they are not alone in facing adversity.</p><p><br></p><p>The epigraph for My Time final piece in<strong> I Walk a Frayed Tightrope without a Safety Net </strong>pays tribute to Walt Whitman's <strong>Song of Myself</strong>.&nbsp;Poems from this collection have appeared in <strong>Birmingham Poetry Review</strong> <strong>Hospital Drive</strong> and <strong>Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes</strong>.</p><p><br></p>