As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.
Grace CavalieriI started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.
Grace CavalieriIf anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.
Grace Cavalieri