I thought of myself as a little poet when I was nine. Of
course, I only wrote poems that rhymed. I would write a poem on a Post-It note
every single day and hand it to my fourth grade teacher. I’m not even sure if
she read them and I’m pretty sure I gave them to her so I could be a teacher’s
pet. I submitted a full-page poem I had written, called “Recycle, Reduce and
Reuse” – my best work - to the popular children’s magazine, Highlights. At age nine, I received my first
rejection letter on official Highlights
stationary.
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