How did you first engage with poetry?
There were some small encounters with poetry in primary and early secondary school, mostly for the purpose of recitation and reading comprehension exercises, but these never really stirred a great interest in the form. My first real engagement came from a psychological need to express myself. In secondary school, I was quite depressed and needed a way to excise certain thoughts and emotions. Thanks to the internet, I discovered the poetry of Dorothy Parker and that gave me an idea of how poetry could function as an artistic outlet for one’s most disturbing emotions. That’s how it started, but quickly it turned into something else.
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