February 23, 2025
Seth Peterson
Seth Peterson is an emerging writer, researcher, and physical therapist in Tucson, Arizona. His poems are in Cincinnati Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, RHINO, and elsewhere. He was recently a finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest, among others, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
It didn’t really happen
if no one hears you say it.
We’re a species of storytellers, and poetry from its beginning has helped us explain difficult themes in life, to give meaning to them. The act of writing a poem involves a discovery that can change you, even just a microscopically small amount. You can see a painful event as part of a larger theme in life, revisit motives, or find meaning where you may not have found it otherwise.