What is Your Passion?

What is your passion? There are so many things that people can pick up and so many things that one person can do that makes them unique. My own passion being poetry writing, I love expressing myself and the things I notice in everyday life through means of poetry. It is a means for me to find peace of mind and explore things about myself that I might not have noticed before. For a school English project of mine, it is planned that the release of a poetry anthology is to be within the next 6 weeks of compiling, editing, constructing, interviewing, and finally, the publishing.

The process of publishing a book is by no means an easy one- especially if you are working with dozens of other people to collect their work. However, through my passion, I hope to explore the passions of other people in how they can express themselves through poetry and help show how poetry can help everyone realize something about themselves. This process so far, is more of a waiting game, as after creating a survey and sending it out to different high schools in the East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD), there is a slow income of poetry and replies that I respond to.

While working on my anthology, I had the realization that needed a cover. To this realization, I reached out to an artist, Madeleine Gan, who was looking for work to do with art. I asked her to work on the cover, which she happily obliged. With this project, I am able to both support growing poets as well as artists.

Essentially, before any of the editing and interesting things, there is a decent wait. During my long and extensive wait for the week, I had the time and opportunity to read into the importance of patience in writing. A quote from an article written by Suzannah Windsor Freeman, a celebrated Canadian writer, gave a quote from Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, a classic writer in the British Parliament in the 1800’s, stated, “Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength,” (goinswriter.com). This comes to show the importance of patience when writing, as patience gives time to be active in other aspects to have more strength as a whole. To which, I have decided to work on my own poems to pass some of the time and add more of my own work to the overall anthology.