Taylor Swift’s Elementary School Teacher Says She ‘Always’ Wrote Poetry 

It turns out Taylor Swift has been a tortured poet since childhood.

Adhering to the recent launch of her album The Tortured Poets Section, the 34-12 months-outdated singer’s former elementary school teacher Barbara Kolvek shared with CBS Philadelphia that Swift has a prolonged partnership with poetry.

“She always was crafting poetry, always. Even in tunes class, even when she should not,” Kolvek explained in an interview released Saturday, April 20.

The retired trainer, who taught Swift from initially by fourth quality at Wyndcroft University in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, extra that she gave the multi-platinum successful performer her initially singing solo. “‘Fast Speak Freddie,’ I feel it was known as,” Kolvek recounted.

The pair have stayed in contact in excess of the yrs, exchanging e-mail with 1 a further. “I come to feel like probably I gave her a small spark or encouragement to do what she was accomplishing,” Kolvek reported.

Prior to releasing TTPD, Swift peppered her perform with nods to her love of poetry and literature, like an homage to Robert Frost’s poem “The Street Not Taken” in the music “The Outside” from her self-titled debut album. “I experimented with to get the road fewer traveled by,” she sings. “But nothing at all looks to get the job done the initially couple periods, am I proper?”

In 2010, Swift revealed that she was encouraged by the text of Dr. Seuss to choose up her have poetry journey.

“A great deal of individuals who gravitate toward music are genuinely, really sort of drawn to poetry due to the fact the terms all have a rhythm and it will come with each other just right,” she claimed during a converse at Scholastic headquarters. “I enjoy poetry, simply because if you get it correct, if you put the appropriate rhymes at the proper ends of the sentences, you can pretty much make words and phrases bounce off a web page.”

The “Down Bad” singer included that she entered her poem “Monster in My Closet” in a national poetry contest when she was in fourth quality. Although she did not earn, the poem did place in the levels of competition. 1 admirer has given that managed to dig up Swift’s poem, sharing a screenshot of her text through X in 2022.

“There’s a monster in my closet and I never know what to do!/Have you at any time witnessed him? / Has he at any time pounced on you?” Swift began. “I ponder what he appears like!/Is he purple with crimson eyes? / I speculate what he likes to eat. / What about his measurement!!”

She concluded, “If he’s good, I’ll name him ‘Happy.’ / If he’s terrible I’ll title him ‘Grouch.’ / I suspect that he is leaving, but if not… I’ll kick him out!”