How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?
My poems enters the world as lines, as images, and as concepts. It’s up to the poem, how it wants to introduce itself to me. The ways in which it enters my mind is as myriad as anyone introduce themselves to anyone else. It’s how they say it that matters, because how the poem comes to you shows you a snippet of a text or a character with a backstory. My work is delving into that past to fully develop the poem, tinkering with form, sound, meter, etc. But the first utterance or even the first concept of the poem is my blueprint.
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