Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
My work should be seen as poetry.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
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