“Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.”
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
