Shane L. Koyczan (born 22 May 1976) is a Canadian poet and writer. Read full biography of Shane Koyczan →
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed... →
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be... →
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.
When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so... →
I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the... →
I make a good living doing what I do.
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are... →
Shane L. Koyczan (born 22 May 1976) is a Canadian poet and writer.