How did you first engage with poetry?
I was obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe when I was in high school. I remember reading his poetry and getting chills. I didn’t start personally writing much until my youngest son suffered a near fatal drowning. I needed a way to work through the trauma and began to obsessively write. Because I was a mother of four (at the time) and worked full time, I needed an accessible form. Poetry proved that medium. I realized that so much of what I saw and did as an emergency physician could be expressed via poetry as well. I started to send my work into the world and had some moderate success.
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