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aeresky

aeresky

poetry

  • an open letter

    A quick and honest poem I wrote. It's not meant to be grammatically correct or anything

    • Poetry
    3 min read


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