Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
Yes. So much. When I started with poetry I was mimicking what I saw and thought was “standard”--I felt that my voice would only be listened to if I expressed my pain. Superficially, I knew ruminating in my suffering was not the only kind of poetry, but I could not separate from it. Now I know poetry is not just a device for vocalizing one’s own, and ingesting other’s suffering, it is a companion, it is meditative, it is funny, it is thoughtful and sometimes it is just in good fun. I also read poetry more than ever, I love to attend poetry readings more than ever, and this allows me to feel more free with how I write.
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