What do you find most difficult about writing poetry?
Editing! Editing my poems is hands down the hardest part for me. I find that the first draft comes easy. I open Google docs with the poem bursting to be born, and I usually have the scaffold down pretty quickly, usually in one sitting. It's after that that things get tricky. Editing, for me, takes days. Sometimes I leave a poem alone for weeks before returning to prune it, with a fresh pair of eyes. I like to write three or four versions of a poem, playing around with lineation and with the shape of the poem on the page, before deciding on its final avatar.
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