Thomas Kemp

Your Poet Is: Poetry and You Thomas Kemp

When I was a young boy I wanted to be a writer. After all, writers know everything! By the time I came home from the Marines at nineteen years old, I wanted to be a writer and a poet. The problem was I did not know anything. As I read and fell in love with words, I discovered that poems could be books in themselves. Now, at this age, I have just one novel published, but I have an abundance of poems to share with you. It takes me years to write a novel, but poems come into my mind every day. I like to look at a face, much like an artist does, and then sit down and write a poem for that face. So, there are poems in this collection that I could have written just for you. That''s why I call the book YOUR POET IS...