1.   I send her poems.

2.   Nicole Andonov, a widow who lives in Park Slope, sent her poems to just two publishing houses.

3.   Over the next few years he visited Williams and sent him poems for critique.

4.   Prompted by her mother, the teenager sent her poems to Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson.

5.   She also sent a poem her sister had written.

6.   Then Heffernan suggested that he send his poems to Gordon Lish, an editor at Knopf.

7.   On his return to London, a girlfriend sent his poems to poet Stephen Spender, who was starting up a magazine.