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John Barton

"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

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"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
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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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"Reading should be a repeat performance."
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"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
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"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."
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"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
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"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
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