I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.