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Mattie

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Mattie has been a member of the Young Writers Society since Mar 3 2005. They have made 471 posts and 129 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