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The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

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Anna Journey

I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.

Extraordinary, Inquiry, Make, Thinking, Views, Words
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I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

Boxed, Ends, Looks, Mean, Sonnet, Though

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

Art, Creative, Materiality, School, Visual, Writing

I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.

Arcs, Closure, Poems, Structure, Way, Writing

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

Cabinets, Curiosity, Grotesque, Inspire, Intimacy, Thinking

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

Cows, Grotesque, Like, Shrimp, Superstition, Superstitions
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