I've been writing personal essays, short stories, and rambling thoughts since high school. I have also worked on a memoir/novel about my mother's life for several years. But I never considered myself a poet. I've certainly dashed off wild thoughts about personal or environmental and other social issues that somewhat resembled poetry. But not having had a formal education in creative writing, I never deemed them as having proper structure. I only wrote "poetry" as an expressional … [Read more...]