News at Eleven: Kay Ryan did not know

she could be a writer until she had a brief talk with the universe. She was on a very long bicycle trip, from the West Coast to the East, in nineteen seventy-six. Riding through Colorado's Rocky Mountains, a question came to her: "Can I be a writer?" Ryan said the universe answered, also with a question: "Do you like it?"

from VOA News: For Kay Ryan, Poetry Is 'the Most Private Form of Communication'

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