In October, we're bringing back our Contributor Feature. We've asked our contributors to send us their thoughts on Nontraditional Families and will be posting their essays on the subject throughout the month. To even further increase the dialogue on this subject, we're inviting YOU to send us a poem of 50 lines or fewer on the topic. Send your poem in the body of an email to editor@theexternalist.com, along with the phrase:

I do hereby grant The Externalist permission to post this poem on The Externalist blog. I recognize and agree that there shall be no payment other than my byline.

Be sure to include "Blog Feature: Nontraditional Families" in the subject header and we may choose to publish your poem this month alongside our authors!