What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that a…

- Pattiann Rogers

How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from…

- Pattiann Rogers

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

- Pattiann Rogers

In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being…

- Pattiann Rogers

Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In…

- Pattiann Rogers

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

- Pattiann Rogers

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a…

- Pattiann Rogers

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

- Pattiann Rogers

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to…

- Pattiann Rogers