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Spokane poet Kathryn Smith.
The poem, even the lifelong pull of actually being a poet, comes from some mysterious place.
There was no one poem that inspired Kathryn Smith and sent her on her path, at least not that she recalls. Not a particular teacher in high school, or a poet newly discovered, that gave the 43-year-old an “aha!” moment.
“I did kind of grow up interested in it when I was in high school, and started reading poetry,” Smith says. “It was just something I connected with, and that interest and fascination continued, I guess.”
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