didn't want to be poet."It [to declare oneself a poet] seemed like putting on airs," she says. "It seemed self-absorbed. It seemed like something that my oil well driller father wouldn't understand at all and that my mother would disapprove of, because it was just showing off."
from VOA News: US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Dazzles With Terse, Witty Words
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