ADELA SINCLAIR
About
I imagine meeting life’s challenges with pen and paper in hand. I have been writing since I was 7 years old, in my native country of Romania. During all significant periods of my life, I have been able to express myself in writing. In high-school I wrote short stories, poems, and prose poems. In college it was playwriting and poetry, as well as comparative literary essays. For the past 17 years of my life I have been writing poetry on my own and in workshops in New York City and elsewhere. I have had the great experiences of working with Regie Cabico, Louis Hirshkowitz, Hermine Meinhard, Sharon Olds, and Brenda Hillman. I have been writing poems and discovering possibilities with language, ideas, emotions, and form. I have learned from Reggie to speak my poems. From Louis, I have learned to critique poems closely and find the intellect in the voice, one that is universal and wiser than myself.
The passion I have for poetry is unbridled. The necessity I have for writing it is the same as that for breathing, eating, and having shelter. In order to create I connect with my inner voice, the undercurrents of my emotions, thoughts, and I release control over the rational. I am carried by the immediacy of verses to guide me through the synoptic mapping of my voice and the visceral canvas strokes that the muse invokes.
