Shelton poet shares personal prose about what shaped him in 'Tempest' Keith Loria FacebookTwitterEmail 2 1of2Shelton poet Ryan Meyer writes about the moments that shaped him in his new poetry collection "Tempest."Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of2"Tempest" will be published on March 1.Ryan Meyer / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less Shelton native Ryan Meyer is releasing his second book of poetry, but the young writer admits that poetry wasn’t something he always had an interest in, though he did know he wanted to be a writer. “I started writing in high school but I really started getting into poetry in college, when I took a creative writing course that was a hybrid between fiction and poetry, and the poetry part was a lot more than I expected,” he said. “That’s where I discovered my favorite poets and my favorite poems, and my interest just branched out from there.”