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Ten Questions – Back Again

In 1, Poetry on Friday, February 8, 2008 at 9:23 am

Nic Sebastian’s at it again, this time asking ten questions of poets about publication. She’s kicking off with Kristy Bowen, and the answers are here.

I’m one of those people who constantly revise, even after publication, so it’s all still grist for the mill most days. Poems are re-written, ripped apart, put back together. As I revised my first book, I kept aiming for a true definitive finality to the poems, and it never came. It’s always work in progress…

Sounds familiar.