“Writers don’t write from experience….”

“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”

― Nikki Giovanni

(quote found at Goodreads)

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Mothers

BY NIKKI GIOVANNI

the last time i was home

to see my mother we kissed

exchanged pleasantries

and unpleasantries pulled a warm

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Read rest of poem at The Poetry Foundation