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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

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Robert Morgan
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 3
Biographer
Novelist
Poet
Hendersonville
North Carolina
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Poetry

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