At the start of my freshman year of high school, I did not know how to write. I knew that I wanted to write, and I knew that I had a lot...

As a young writer, though I didn't realize it at the time, I was completely enamored and thus shaped by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. I...

Billy Collins has always been on of my biggest inspirations as a poet. I discovered in my freshman year of highschool and at first I...