About brandy nālani mcdougall

Being the Hawaii Poet Laureate was somewhat of a surprise. It is a very new program that the state created. There was an interview process, application process and then a panel of people who made the decision. There is some funding attached to it for programming and events and things like that, and then a stipend for me as well. Once I discovered my love of writing poetry, which was lifelong.

But when I really started to think of myself, as possibly being a writer of poetry, was when I decided to pursue a Master of Fine Arts and Poetry. That was about over 20 years ago. Since then, I have devoted a lot of my time, anxiety, blood, sweat, and tears into becoming a poet.

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Poetry originally was something for me to be able to relieve a lot of childhood trauma. Inevitably, it would just show up anyway. It would come up with relationships, friendships, work, or environmental issues.