Every author, artist, actor, and human being has faced mounds of rejections. Marjorie Skelly has been writing her entire adult life and has received a modicum of recognition for her poems and stories and essays. But she knows what it feels like, and means, to be unpublished. It is been a stick in her eye, an undermining of her sense of self-worth, a rejection of her most dearly held dream. And now, suddenly and out of time, here is her first book, the one she was born to publish, the one that contains virtually all she has writtenin one place, between two covers. What holds the book together is Skelly's subtitle: On Not Giving Up on Your Dream. It is a book for those who want to communicate but aren't allowed the opportunity, who crave affirmation but receive it only from family and friends, who are ready to give up on their dream, whatever it might be. The Unpublished Poet is for the unpublished poet in all of us.