Dear Kailee,
“Imbolc Chant” has four different meters in it, and it was written to be danced.
1) How did you begin to write poetry? Age?
2) What inspires you to write? People? Places?
3) What do you enjoy most about writing?
4) Are there other poets that you look up to or that inspire you? Who? Why?
5) Did you always want to write?
6) Do you do it as a hobby… or is it a job?
7) Where do you like to concentrate and write your poetry? Why?
8) Do you ever get stuck on a poem or get stressed?
9) What is your favorite poem you’ve written? Overall? (Any poem from any poet)
10) Last but not least… What quote of advice do you give admirers and fans to live by? 😀
I know it’s a lot! But I really wanna know a lot about you! Just answer them as best as you can.
Also…The thing about Longfellow’s poem… The Song of Hiawatha… Umm… Well I am not completely sure. I asked my mom about that one. She said she thinks it is modeled about his poem. I mean we have a street named Longfellow up by my High School and Hiawatha is an indian name. Our school mascott used to be the Redskins (unfortunately now the Redhawks). But I guess it’s about a lil’ indian boy named Hiawatha… but I’m not sure if it’s actually linked to our town. I will do some research on it though! I think my grandparents actually have the poem (A.K.A. pretty much a book lol) at their house. So I will try to see but Im not sure! 🙁 Lol
Your New Fan,
Kailee H. 🙂
Dear Kailee,
1) How did you begin to write poetry? Age?
I began to write poetry at age 7 or 8. I think it might have been a school assignment, but I just never stopped. I showed some poems to a librarian in the public library when I was 9, and she sent them to a magazine which published them.
Feelings that come from people, places, ideas, or experiences.
The feeling of doing what I am meant to do.
Yes, there are hundreds. A few of them are W.B. Yeats, George Herbert, Langston Hughes, Rumi, Audre Lorde, Gerald Manly Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hart Crane, John Keats, Sara Teasdale, Gwendolyn Brooks, Basho, Frank O’Hara, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hafiz, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Odysseus Elytis, Sylvia Plath, Edmund Spenser, and Emily Dickinson. Each of them inspires me through their skill in poetic language and music, and I look up to them because they had the courage to follow their unique path and”Wh vision.
It is a calling. I guess you could say that a calling is sort of a combination of a hobby and a job.
Sometimes I like to have people around–in a cafe, on a train, on a plane, on a bus–and sometimes I like being alone–at a desk, or lying on my bed, or outside in nature. Either way, it’s better when I’m not interrupted.
Sometimes, but then I try to just leave it alone and do something else until I can come back with a fresh approach.
A lot of my poems feel like favorites. A few of them are: “Walk With Me,” “Summer Solstice Chant,” “Landing Under Water,” “Butterfly Lullaby,” “Chain of Women,” “Goddess,”and “October Moon.” I have hundreds of favorite poems by all the poets listed above and by others. Some of the first poems I loved when I was young are “Where Go the Boats” by Robert Louis Stevenson, “Your Catfish Friend” by Richard Brautigam, “Little Tree” by e.e. cummings, and “The Tyger” by William Blake. Other favorites are: the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Seafarer”, “The Flower-Fed Buffalo” by Vachel Lindsay, “Nuns Fret Not” by Wordsworth,” “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti, “”The Illiterate” by William Meredith, “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, and “Do Not Go Gentle” by Dylan Thomas.
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