Our next featured member is someone who needs no introduction. He's been a reviewing tour de force since joining in February, and is an absolute whirlwind of activity.
Please join me in congratulating @BlackNether12, our new featured member!
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