About Poetry

I was talking to my cousin, Casian (whose blog you can read here), about reading and writing poetry, when I realised how my relationship to poetry has changed over the last year.

I started being curious about poetry when we learned about Modernist poetry in high school. Then, in the summer I wrote my first poems for Street Delivery (an event we organised in Baia Mare). Since I'm at university I understand poetry much better and I can actually enjoy reading and sometimes writing it when it’s simple and honest.

Last night I read an article about a Romanian poet, Ana Blandiana, that was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I've read some of her poems in school, but I never liked them. However, after the article, I decided to look up her poems and I was surprised to see that many of them were actually great, but I assume that they didn't show those to us because they are on more controversial topics.

Poetry is such an interesting way to express your feelings or understand someone else’s. I wish I understood this earlier. But anyway, prose (and also theatre) will always be closer to my heart and, as I found out, to Casian’s too.