Michael Collier

With tens of thousands of Marylanders in foreclosure, today we'll hear about two remediation programs: the National Mortgage Settlement, which could bring principal reduction to distressed borrowers, and the Independent Foreclosure Review, which could put your mortgage in front of a neutral third party to look for the bank's mistakes and potentially get you some financial compensation from your servicer. Deadlines for both are looming.

Michael Collier is the former poet laureate of Maryland. He teaches on the faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park, and he directs the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont. He has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Web Extra: Michael Collier reads his poem "Six Lines for Louise Bogan"