I'm a poet in my 20s, but when people ask me, I tend to call myself a writer—anything but a poet. Over the years, I've seen that although people enjoy poetry from time to time, the writers behind those works are often underappreciated.

I always wanted to write a poetic book of some sort, I imagined it as a small, pocket-sized book filled with chapters of poetry for everyone to enjoy. But publishers have never taken me seriously. It is often said that poetry isn't worth writing and that making it into a book just isn't enough.

About three years and many disappointments later, I decided to leave poetry for "actual" books. But even then, I'm still just a house writer, the one whose only readers...