There are few poets more important to me than Adrienne Rich. Her words found me in a community college "Women's Literature" course. I didn't know exactly what was going to be covered in that course; I just loved literature and women's writing and thought I would enjoy it. It turned out to be the course that would guide my studies and shape the course of my life. Adrienne Rich spoke to me in ways I didn't know existed, about ideas I didn't know belonged to anyone else. It was largely the life and poetry of Rich and women like her that motivated me to apply to the creative writing program at Bowling Green State University with a minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies