ABOUT ME

About Me? Well, there's really not much to say about me. Or, at least nothing I can legally say ^_-

I'm a good ol' Indiana boy, born and raised (that's nothing to be proud of for the record). An on and off college student who watches too many movies and has a habit of not eating meat.

I'm often described as being shy, till I say something off the wall, then people just describe me as being weird. Can't disagree really. I mean, who in their right mind would make a poetry website anyway? ^_^

Speaking of poetry, it's weird I even write poetry. I don't even read poetry. If I do read poetry, I'd much rather read a friend's poem or something non-mainstream.

If you ask me who my favorite poet is, I can only give you a blank stare. Worst yet, I really don't like to be called a poet either.

I remember my high school creative writer teacher telling us this during class. That you can't call yourself a writer, only the audience can do that. I kinda wrote it off the first time I heard it, but as I thought about it later, it started to make a lot more sense.

Just because a person writes, that doesn't make them a writer. Or if a person is walking down the street singing, it doesn't make them a singer. What it makes is a person who isn't a writer, but a person who is writing.

Okay, that sounds confusing no doubt. But think of it this way, if a person had to write a short story for an English class, just because he's writing a story, does that automatically mean he's a writer?

I can write poems till the cows come home (I don't have cows BTW), but unless someone gives me the recognition that I'm a poet, than I'm nothing more than a person writing poetry and not a poet.

So that's my philosophy on why I don't like to be called a poet. Because, for all this work, I could be the worst poet out there, and embody nothing of what it takes to be a poet. But just because I write a few rhymey words doesn't give me the right to start calling myself something I'm not.

So that's me in a nutshell. I'm just your friendly, neighborhood, poet wannabe.

- cori graham