I teach private music lessons from my home as well as public K-5 music at a downtown charter school. As with many on this forum, I enjoy reading in my spare time, and I'm joining hoping to find occasional interesting dialogue! My favorite authors are cummings, Wordsworth, Garcia Marquez, Herodotus, Shakespeare, and--most recently--Neruda.
My hope is that I'll make "friends", meet fascinating new (to me) works, and insights into familiar ones. My fear is that I'll find an overly high percentage of posts that petition others for help "figuring out" poems for a last-minute school paper.
I write quoniam nihil agere delectat, scribo (spinning off a famous Cicero quote) because I love to read and write for relaxation and stress-therapy. The quote translates inasmuch as it is pleasant to do nothing, I write.
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I'm sure you'll find plenty of stimulating conversation here. Don't worry too much about the "last-minute school papers" questions; those are very rarely posted by members, and certainly don't constitute a majority of posts. They are frequent enough, but not so much as to be bothersome. I like your list of favorite authors. Although, I'm not familiar with Neruda; I'll have to fix that. Again, welcome.
Why don't you write books people can read? -Nora Barnacle 
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