I started writing about five years ago. Back then I was neck-deep in philosophy. Eventually, I swam into epic poetry, then formal, experimental, and speculative poetry. I hope to help resurrect the epic poem and verse drama, modernize it, and pull it back onto the pedestal it belongs. I am looking to find poets that don't just write to cathartically offload their emotional condition, but those who see poetry as a means to manifest the never-ending story of this life experiment. I love existential philosophy and view that as one of the most influential springboards to my art. I hope to surround myself with others who look at the individual as a means to uncover the who and what we are universally.
Major influences: Marlowe, Shakespeare, (Emily) Bronte, Dostoyevsky, Sylvie Kande, (James) Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Gerrard Manley Hopkins, John Milton, Alexandre Dumas, Ezra Pound, Louise Imogen Guiney, Homer, Keats, Ibsen, Virginia Woolf, Dante, Virgil, Jericho Brown, and many others!
