I hope you enjoy my poetry book. I wrote it during my junior year of highschool.

I even designed cover art and the copyright page for it!

Some poets who've particularly inspired me to write:

Yusef Komunyakaa

Sappho

My slightly satirical poem "Of Jargon and Inaccessible Pathways" is written in Sapphic verse.

Kaveh Akbar

Mina Loy

Mina Loy's "The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa" inspired my poem pastiche of her work, titled "Sounding Hellenistic" (pg. 26).

James Wright

Dylan Thomas 

Check out my poem "You Are in Your Death Knells Now" (pg. 23).

Walt Whitman

Also, 

author Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried inspired much of the themes and concepts tackled in the poetry book.

Other Writing

I use this space to exhibit my favorite essay, which I wrote on the illusory American dream in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and poet Langston Hughes' "Let America be America Again."