How did you first engage with poetry?
I was about twenty-three when I decided to take poetry seriously, but the roots of that decision go back a long way. I read poetry in school, both elementary and high school, and can still recite lines from some of the poems I read then. At home we had a few books of children’s poetry, but we also had my dad’s old poetry anthologies from high school and college, and I read from those as well once I was a bit older. I wrote a handful of poems in my school years, and then gradually began writing more as I entered my twenties. It seemed to be a natural means of expression for me.
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