Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.