I had the honor of accepting one of Skye's poems for inclusion in my anthology, Submerged: Tales From the Basin (StepSister Press, 2008). Skye is an enormous talent, on the brink of a discovery that will surely launch her into publishing terrain worthy of her work. I watched her with great pride as she read at the Dodge Poetry Festival, after which she received a standing ovation (the only one of the entire festival, from my experience. Sorry, Billy Collins). Skye writes from a deep place within her soul, and her words are never diluted by second-guessing or careerism. She writes what she means to say, and she says what she means, always. She's the real deal.
- Lauren Gonzalez, December 1, 2009

Dear Skye,

Words cannot express my gratitude for your presentations here at Union County College. The feedback from faculty and students alike has been overwhelming.
I hope you had a good sense of your impact upon the audience at your reading. Your compelling poetry absolutely drew out students who’ve never before been willing to share their own work nor discuss the meaning and importance of poetry. It resulted in a poetry buzz that was palpable for weeks. It was that buzz that drew so many to your workshop later in the day. That’s why they were sitting in the aisles.
About that workshop, I can only give you a big WOW. As awkward as that lecture hall was with its steeply raked bolted to the floor seats you still had ideas and language bouncing off the walls and generating new work. It was difficult to tell who received more from the experience: students new to poetry, students old to poetry or staff and faculty—very old to poetry. Many of the students continued with the new work, revised tweaked it all. Poetry submissions to the campus literary magazine were way up in numbers. This is to your credit.
You have made a major contribution to the school that reverberates well beyond the one day you were on campus. Thank you for your bravery in confronting, verbalizing and sharing subject matter that matters. Thank you for being an intrepid, precise and supportive teacher. Thank you for being an inspirational human being.

Michael Z Murphy, M.A., C.M.T.
Department of English/Fine Arts/Modern Languages/Communication
Union County College, Cranford, NJ