"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."

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"In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change."

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"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."

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"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."

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"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

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"Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem."

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"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

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