Am I the only girl alive that thinks love poetry is cliched?
Sorry, off topic, but Richard's post made me think of it...
I hate poetry period.
Didn't you say you studied English??? Yer an English teacher right? ...and you hate poetry?!??!? Perhaps another generation will be lost, because of you.
Economics.
Don't lie, guy. You Skool teachers always teach more things than one.
Sometimes math.
So then why do you write? Is it just a hobby?
No, I write short fiction for the futile hope it'll get published.
But you want to be a writer, right? You want to go to war, shoot an elephant, and get published like Hemingway, right? I'll admit that I don't like E. Cummings, or Pound, but the "poet" does not have to make "poetry". The "poet" can make whatever he wants.
I do compare my career to Hemingway's sometimes. We both did similar things at war, and our writings both share that hard, unemotional prose. But its not really a question of wanting to be a writer, you either are or you aren't.
Publication is really just the end work of years of hacking away. For me anyway.