Category: Opinion Essay

  • My Personal History with Poetry

    Today is the first day of National Poetry Month. It has been 28 years since it was launched, in 1996, by the Academy of American Poets. Thinking about this made me think of my own personal history with poetry. When I thought of this history, at first, I believed I didn’t have a history with…

  • Birdsong

    Summer’s dusk is welcomed by the trilling of the cicada, a sound that takes me back to my childhood. Back to the days I, a prepubescent pre-teen, sat on the steps with my big sister, harmonizing the song Falling in Love Again. Back to the days where sitting on the front steps of our old…