Introducing Poetry Sundays: On Melancholy

Introduction

I used to be a poet.

I’ve written about this before. As a teenager, I started out in fan-fiction, and then, around age 16, discovered Allen Ginsberg. He spoke to me in a very specific and personal way that only a dead poet can. He’s the reason I went to school next to the Paterson Falls; his voice graced all of my post-high school mix-CDs. Because of Allen, I loved reading poems, and loved writing them, too. I got a master’s degree in it, and at the end of my experience at the Univ...