My first poetry I don't recall.
My first poetry memory is my first grade teacher, on my graduating, telling me never to give it up.
I know I wrote some that first year, but don't remember any.
It was in my 6th grade when we did poetry-I think that's the year I received the book. I was probably 10 or 11 years old.
Wish I knew what happened to that book. Moving and all over the years. I began writing in 1980!