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Paul Diamond

  • Fiction Discussion Re: At what age did you start writing and

    I was a late and very recent starter. My first unassigned story was when I was 18. I don't know why I started but I got the bug. P.

    Sep 6, 2009


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch