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  • My other half part 1

    "So, Nina, what are you doing this Saturday?" "I don't know..Ethan asked me to go see a movie with him. Do you think I should go?" "Do you want to ...

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  • My other half part 2

    Suddenly my phone rings, I take it out of my pocket and answer it, "Hello?" "Hey, it’s me, Ethan!" "Oh! Hey Ethan!" “Are you alright?” “Yeah, I’m... I’m fine.” "I ...

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  • My other half part 3

    I am sitting on a couch beside mom and dad in the school psychologist’s room. I was injected a week ago. I was medicated. After I woke up I found ...

    14 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