What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Jim Carroll and then Ted Berrigan and then Frank O'Hara in that order laid the groundwork for my poetic stylings. Breton and Jean Genet shifted my ideas. Bob Kaufman added yet another layer to my poetic understanding but David Antin and Nicanor Parra brought me back to the beginning. They got me back to thinking about talking and chronology and brought me around to the potential of antipoetry and its relationship to conversation and diary.
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