Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
I think I’m much more open-minded than I used to be. Working as a Poetry Editor for fifteen years, I’ve seen poems that are brilliant that I can’t explain or don’t understand, but there’s something there that gets you. When you’re a young, beginning poet, it’s easy to buy in to your own ego and not recognize the brilliance in the other or to believe a few professors and discount whatever they don’t like. Poetry is a big umbrella. We can all fit under it.
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