I live in Pennsylvania. I have a day job that allows me to travel and interact with all kinds of people. It is both very rewarding and very time-consuming, but that has afforded me many perspectives, regarding the world, that have attuned me to my own poetic voice. In my spare time, I have recently begun developing my craft skills in poetry. As Giuseppe Mazzotta summarized in his book Reading Dante (2014), which is derived from his Yale Lecture, about Dante's insistence and belief that "poetry is better than philosophy, for philosophy stumbles against its own limits: it cannot quite reach the depths, the heights, and the enlightenment it seeks and that make it so that happiness or the safe harbor is within reach of everybody."
Certain things simply need craft—elevated diction and the application of meaning artistically and stylistically—to convey ideas that require some amount of processing to successfully harness intellectually or to internalize thoroughly. I consider myself a beginner on a long journey. I have made progress.