My name is Michelle D. Legare



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    I live in New Hampshire but have lived up and down both coasts of the United States.
My Mother's family immigrated from Ireland to Scotland, she in turn, immigrated here.
She married a guy in the Navy and soon had me.  Because we moved around alot, I became
involved with music... it was the one thing I could do no matter where we moved and be
welcomed formy voice (almost became a professional singer but that's another story).
 
    Poetry was a logical sequence within music, I became fascinated with lyrics.
When I was eight, I discovered Emily Dickinson and my whole world changed.  Emily and I
became fast friends, she introduced my to Shakespeare, Yeats, Thoreau, and many others.
We were a circle of poets ever broadening our sphere of understanding.
 
    In my senior year of high school, My English teacher found out I liked to write
and started challenging me to learn hiaku. He would often give me a lesser grade on
tests because I didn't write one at the bottom of my paper.  He introduced me to the
world of Greek tragedy and farce, and got me involved in the tragedy's Shakespeare wrote.
 
    By the time I got to College, the literary magazine beckoned.  That summer, a
group of people (myself included), created an organization called, The Ocean County Poet's
Collective, a magazine came soon after called "Without Haloes".  All of us worked together
and had a great time.  The group lasted longer than I did, after the first year, I left the
state and moved down south.  I watched as the magazine flourished and grew into a State,
then National organization.  It only lived thirteen years but those years were great!
 
    When I moved to New Hampshire, I met someone and got married.  We have two boys
(hellions) and a house.  Once again, I'm involved with a poetry organization, The Poetry
Society of New Hampshire.  I am the Co-Editor, as of June, to "The Poet's Touchstone".
 
    Life has been interesting to say the least.  I live far away from my fellow poets,
so it's nice to be able to talk with you and discuss poetry.  It's my passion, I'm always
moving in different directions and seeking the evolution within poetry. I hope you enjoy
the search as much as I do.