How does a poem begin?
A single image, a word I like, a line that comes to me, a particular experience, something I read in the news, a memory—there are many ways a poem finds me. Then a kind of obsession takes over and I am drawn to it, to working it, revising it. I also love research. It can be anything from researching wildflowers to the Industrial Revolution to a kind of bird. Some poems begin with research if I have an idea about something; or something I write might lead to research.
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