Em16 has been a member of the Young Writers Society since Aug 17 2019. They have made 1 posts and 100 reviews. Please take the time to welcome them to YWS!
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
