About Corie Feiner
About
Back in the early 1980’s, a teaching-artist visited my third grade classroom and told us something to the effect that poetry is not about good or bad or right or wrong, but about touching someone’s heart. Now I know it is more nuanced than that, but at that moment, in the midst of statewide testing and evaluations, I was in.
Later that year, my bestie gave me a fuzzy black poetry journal embossed with a unicorn and I started to write poetry, thoughts, and letters to myself.
Here is one of the first poems I wrote:
I’ll hop on a rainbow and fly away.
Forever after that’s where I’ll stay.
I’ll soar past Venus and visit stars.