I Write Short Stories, And I Wrote

If I Begin Writing A Poem That Means I'm Intrigued In Some Way By Whatever It's About And That If I'm Not Trying To Find Something New And Pushing The Envelope In The Poem I Can't Expect My Reader To Be Particularly Excited About It Either.

I Was Apprehensive. I Feared Every Time I Talked About Poetry, It Would Be Filtered Through The Lens Of Race, Sex, And Age.

For Many Years, I Thought A Poem Was A Whisper Overheard, Not An Aria Heard.

I Believe People May Have A Predisposition For Artistic Creativity. It Doesn't Mean They're Going To Make It.

Can It Be That Even As One Grows To Fit The Space One Lives In, One Cannot Grow Until There's Space To Grow?