James Gregory Paul Sr.

I fell in love with words when my mom gave me a little white book called "The Student's Companion". I was eight years old. This love affair inspired me to take classes in English Literature in High School where I was introduced to the classical works of literary greats like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Edgar Allan Poe and William Wordsworth. But it wasn't until I read the irreverent, free-flowing verses of Beat Poets like Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Amiri Baraka, that I …