How did you first engage with poetry?
My mom used to read me poetry when I was a baby! She “gave” my sister and I each our own e.e cummings poem to “describe” us. Mine was “May my heart always be open to little birds”, #53 from his 100 collected poems -- I remember memorizing it by fourth grade. My mom would keep us home from school to study Brontë, Wordsworth, Eliot, and others. Poetry was always in my life, I’ve never known a time without poetry in my life.
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