How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?
I am a lonely poet. I live in a box of cut up words. Sometimes I share bits of poems with friends. I never workshop them. I am my own ruthless editor. My poems tend to sit in forgotten word docs for several years, then I tear them apart and make them into new poems. then i abandon them again in some god-forsaken file. Eventually I am satisfied and I submit them somewhere for a third fermentation period. Over time I work my poems into a small thematic collection and make a new file. It’s a very slow process. My poetry process is a file within a file within a file.
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