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  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Fire

    ConorR, You have the privilege of being my first post. Although I thought your poem was out of place, I thought it was funny and it brought a smile to ...

    Oct 23, 2006


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