Poetry acknowledged invisible things, the things that haunt us. Amber Haines shares her journey into poetry.

"I used poetry as a way to preserve my privacy and test out my hypotheses of the world. It was my way of encoding my views so no one could tell me my observations of people, places or things were childish, or incorrect." Kathryn Neel shares her journey into poetry.

Poet Todd Davis shares his journey into poetry, inspired by his father.

Paula J. Lambert describes her Journey into Poetry, from aspiring fiction writer to published poet, by way of pigs and prose.

I didn’t start writing poetry until I was in my mid-forties. Growing up, I wasn’t the kind of kid who wrote poetry or holed up in his room writing a journal. As a teenager, I loved the singer-songwriters of the sixties — Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell – and I [...]

I don’t recall how it happened; how I got bamboozled (love that word) into writing poetry. This much I know: L.L. Barkat is to blame. (Handcuff her, folks. Lead her away.) She recommended I start by reading Billy Collins so I did and loved it. I loved how his words only made sense if you [...]

I know poetry is where I'm meant to be. I just can't escape it.

I liked poetry at that point in my life, but I didn’t love it.

After my mom died, I thought I’d never write another poem. Enter Susan Wooldridge’s book Poemcrazy.

For the past few weeks, I've been writing poetry, brainstorming lines. I imagine the right-brained play is overflowing into my creative process on the job.

I cannot remember a time when there was not a passion for cadence and knowing and naming. This is the stuff of poetry.