Great Regulars: Like many of her poems, [Jessie] Carty's poem,

"After the Storm," draws on a memory from her childhood.

"I remember someone saying once that you could spend your whole life writing about everything before, like, age 7," Carty said. "'After the Storm' is loosely (very loosely) influenced by the house I lived in until I was about 8 years old," she says. "We had a large security light on the roadway and there were always bats circling the lights."

from Bill Diskin: Independent Tribune: Poets interest in writing started at an early age

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