National Poetry Month!
What happens when a poet time travels?
It’s National Poetry Month!
While the last few years I’ve focused mostly on my fiction and creative nonfiction works, I actually started out as a poet. Since it’s national poetry month, I thought I’d take this opportunity to time travel . . . and look back at some of my oldest poetry!
I wrote my first real poem at age 14 (before that they were song lyrics) and continued to write poetry consistently until around the age of 25. I do still write poetry, just not as consistent as I once did.
During my teen years, a few of my poems were published. In fact, I even won a National Poetry Contest for my poem, Spare Change. My English teacher convinced me to enter. I couldn’t believe it when I won! The contest was out of California, and to this east coast small town girl, that in itself was very cool. Here I am at 16 with my winnin…
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