by in_the_flicker .

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included)* who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Here's my list:

• Madeleine L'Engle
• Charlotte Bronte
• Eli Clare
• Judy Grahn
• Susan Cooper

( cuz you can sense what has been lost / cuz you can sense what is at stake )

( in which I get emo about my family again )