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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Unavoidable

    Thank you all for your advice. Truth is I wrote this rather late at night and now that I'm well rested I do notice the things everyone has pointed out. ...

    Jan 27, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Seventeen Years

    Thank you for all of your feed back, I really appreciate it. I'll do my best in the future to come. ~Spades

    Jan 25, 2010


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