Cheryl Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. In "CHILDREN, IT IS TIME WE HAD THE TALK, " the domestic is turned on its head, reimagined and deconstructed. Her explorations are manY--sometimes charming, sometimes grotesque, sometimes ghoulishly sexy. Often all at once. Maddalena's poetry is something you've never heard or read before--incisive, uncomfortable, biting, and beautiful. Cheryl Maddalena is an iconoclast of the first class, one of the most influential poets in the poetry slam movement, and perhaps its most original voice.