Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/weekly-poem-miracle-blanket-by-erika-meitner Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Erika Meitner is an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program. She is also completing her doctorate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She has published three books of poems: “Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore,” “Ideal Cities” and “Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls.”