Poetry
The first way I ever felt comfortable expressing myself was in writing. My mother still has a collection of the handwritten notes I would give her as a child. They all specify: “PLEASE RESPOND IN WRITING.” (She never did.)
The New York Society Library: https://www.nysoclib.org/children/iznara-benoit-kornhauser
Archived at Columbia University: https://books.google.com/books/about/Memoir_After_Yet_Another_Rejection_Lette.html?id=MgVxwAEACAAJ