How does you work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writer's group that you work ideas and poems with?
After many years ago when I workshopped and studied with the Irish American poet John Montague and soon after with Joseph Brodsky, I internalized, I believe, the patterns of serious critique, and ever since have written poems with, as the tact of my first collection (Only Others Are) implied, as visioning various individuals and groups, audiences, as it were, for placement of the works, both ghosts and those still corporeal.
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