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Catherine Graham | Issue 3

On Choosing Subject Matter

Kathryn Mockler
Mar 15, 2021
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I had no plans to be a writer, a poet. The concept was foreign to me. Poets were old men we studied in English class, dead men with white beards.

The deaths of my parents changed my relationship to writing. They died during my undergraduate years: mother, my first year; father, my last. Alone in the world, grief consumed me.

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