11. How important is music to your poetry?
On the surface, not terribly, but a lot of my best ideas are sparked by a song lyric or the feeling that a song makes me have. One of my favorite pieces I wrote specifically for the literary journal Memoir Mixtapes, based on a poem by Nicole Blackman that had been set to music by the Golden Palominos – my first chapbook was titled after a lyric from a song by The Church, & a lot of my titles are sideways references to music. So it sneaks its way in, & hopefully someone sees the thing I’ve tucked away. Music is kind of an “Easter egg” in my writing.
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