How did you first engage with poetry?
Hmm. Probably around 1995. I remember deciding I would write a poem. It was just that simple. So I did—on my sister’s very fancy Brother word-processing typewriter! I was impressed that this typewriter had an actual computer keypad. But not so impressed with what I actually wrote. Nevertheless, that got the poetry brainworks going. It took me another year to try writing a second poem, but I found myself writing a lot more. My engagement wasn’t a daily practice but was purely spontaneous: I wouldn’t write unless something smacked me upside the head.
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