What
poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Off the top of my head, and in
alphabetical order because I cannot possibly rank them: Franny Choi, Canisia
Lubrin, Morgan Parker, Claudia Rankine, Ocean Vuong, A. Zachary, Jenny Zhang. They
have each, in their own way, challenged both the medium and the reader. I had
only ever known traditional forms of poetry shown to us in grade school; while
I liked some of it, I mostly appreciated them on a technical level –
emotionally, I had trouble connecting to them and/or seeing facets of myself.
These writers have all shown me the potential of the personal, and of the
critical.
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