Chandra Toucher
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Chandra Toucher has been writing poetry since she can remember. She graduated with a BA in English, during which time she completed a 60-page manuscript entitled Darkroom Woman. Her work has been published in The Paragon Review (Colorado, 2001), and she is in the process of returning to school for her MFA. She would like to share this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke:
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse.
Winning Entry: Winter Moon (A Soldier’s Thoughts)
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2003, Finalist
