I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.
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I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I can't deny the urge to write about such events. It takes me a while to gather the evidence, you know?
Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.
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