Poetry and songwriting are similar.

I have never written a song before but I love to write poetry. I started writing poetry in the 5th grade. I was a bullied little hurt black girl. I created my first poems then. I found it wonderful to find poetry in my 30s again. I also kept journals for the past ten years. Another thing that gave me some perspective was writing my memoir and just having written a few memoir pieces in my last two semesters of college. I enjoy reading memoirs too. I read Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso, Lying a Metaphorical memoir, By The Way, Kathryn Harrison’s The Mother Knot, Dorothy Allison’s Two and Three Things I Know For Sure, Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina. I’m reading Issac Mizrahi’s memoir I M. Mizrahi’s memoir is great so far it tells his personal story.