Nita Donovan is a former Los Angeles City teacher and "Stepford Wife." She is the alternate facilitator of the Saturday afternoon poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque and was a volunteer teacher of English as a second language. Her chapbook, I Didn¹t Want to Make Any Mistakes Either, was published by Spout Graphic Press and her new manuscript, If We Had Stopped We Would Have Had Nothing, has recently been completed. Nita¹s poems have been published by Moondance," "Poetry in the Sand," "The estside Writers," "Aquarius West," "The Palisadian Post," "Haywire," Blue Arc West, an Anthology of California Poets and "Gentle Strength Quarterly." Many of her poems evolve from a parallel life of dreams and the realities of wars and politics as forces of power.>