: About Me

My name is Brittany Phillips. I am 23 years old and live in Hampton Bays on Long Island, New York. I just graduated from Saint Joseph's College and received my B.A. degree in English with a concentration in Secondary Education. I have realized that writing is my true passion, and I want to pursue a career in it rather than enter the teaching profession right now. I plan on either getting my M.S. in Journalism or my M.F.A. in Creative Writing next fall in New York City. Hope you enjoy my stuff!

My passion is ...

writing poetry.

I know too much about ...

Kate Chopin and her proto-feminist novel The Awakening.

My parents always told me ...

that some day reality is going to hit me hard because I live in a fantasy world.

My childhood ambition ...

to write and illustrate my own children's books.

My favorite memory ...

going on the tilt-a-whirl with my father as a child and how he used to spin our cart so fast and so many times around until I was dizzy.

Why I write ...

to vent my emotions and organize my thoughts.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

currently reading All We Ever Wanted Was Everything by Janelle Brown

My first job ...

bus girl at local restaurant in my hometown.

My best moment ...

will be when my first novel is published.

My inspiration ...

for poetry is heartbreak and all of the chaotic beauty of the world.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: My dear mother

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Mother, If you were a flower You'd be a wildflower, Swaying in the wind Standing tall with all your power. You'd be sprouting out On a beaten path, Getting trampled on But still standing tall with all your wrath. And I am your flower, A dark red rose. Stem full of thorns, Secrets which no one knows. But you know them all, Because you can see right through me. You know what I am, You know what I want to be. I'm sorry my thorns prick you, And I'm sorry my petals don't stay put. They fall to the ground, And they land at your foot. And that's all I am; A pile of fallen rose petals on the floor...

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