Where can I begin to describe my experiences as a writer? I started writing poetry as a child. My first grade teacher had us write a poem from our spelling words and it was magic. Words were magic. When I started writing seriously I was an undergrad at Westminster College and I was the president of Writers @ Work. My artistic journey was influenced by amazing writer I met along the way and the practice of daily writing.
I am a true believer in practice over inspiration. I write every day. I rewrite constantly. As Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer says, "it doesn't have to be good, it only has to be true."
Peggy Shumaker, Jacqueline Osherow, Galway Kinnell, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Matsuo Bashō, David Lee, Anna Akhmatova, Sherman Alexie, Katharine Coles, Louise Gluck, Donald Revell, Lucie Brock-Broido, Agha Shahid Ali, Adrienne Rich, Paisley Rekdal, Hilda Doolittle, Rumi, Thomas Sleigh, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Norris, Lisa Bickmore, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelo, Eleanor Wilmer.
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