Writing prompt #114: A LETTER TO YOURSELF

Hi Everyone,

In 1938, at the age of twenty-four, Puerto Rican poet and political activist Julia de Burgos published “To Julia de Burgos,” a fascinating, accusatory poem addressed to herself—and, by extension, to island society.

It begins like this:

“Already people are muttering that I am your enemy

because they say that in verse I give the world your I.

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