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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 29, 2012
- 3 min
How Adrienne Rich Taught Me To Be a Poet: Everyday Magic, Day 527
I started writing poetry years beforehand when I was about 14, running with the usual suspects — T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings (who were...