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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

I have a lot of books I want to write.

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.