My name is Leslie Simon.\u00a0 I’ve been writing poetry since I was a young girl.\u00a0 Whenever I felt deep emotions, I had to write it down in a poem.\u00a0 It was cathartic for me, as it is for most writers.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t until I was 70 that I decided to publish my poems.\u00a0 My book is Pieces of My Heart<\/em>.\u00a0 In it, I tell my journey of going through the heartbreak of depression, healing, recovery and finally reaching a celebration of life.<\/p>\n In addition to writing, I am also an avid quilter.\u00a0 I was inspired by my poems to sew a quilt for each one to evoke emotions that I expressed.\u00a0 In the book the quilts are the illustrations for each poem.\u00a0 The book is quite unique and it’s received very flattering reviews.\u00a0 I am so proud that my book appeared in The New York Times and most delighted that I had the extreme pleasure to read at MoMA.<\/p>\n I’m joining the 24 hour Marathon to hone my skills and just to have fun being part of this challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Leslie Simon.\u00a0 I’ve been writing poetry since I was a young girl.\u00a0 Whenever I felt deep emotions, I had to write it down in a poem.\u00a0 It was cathartic for me, as it is for most writers. It wasn’t until I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126157,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126153\/revisions\/126157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}