Poetry the Way I Did It

The author takes the reader through a glimpse of what it was like for her while taking a class in poetry writing. She also reveals the types of poems she was writing before she took the poetry writing class. Her poems take you through a roller coaster of emotions from "Tragedy and God" to "Free as a Bird". During her journey of writing and reading she rediscovered the words of the great Langston Hughes, and it inspired her to write about her blackness and her family stories, and it opened up her heart to write a letter to reconnect with her daddy, who left this earth much too soon.