Here are some questions to get people started:
--Who are your favorite poets?
--Which poems of yours are your personal favorites and why?
--What do you feel about reaction to your newest book? Has it been unfairly criticized, or has reaction ranged across the board?
--How do subjects of your poems present themselves to you, and how long do you spend revising them?
--How do you know when you have reached a point of diminishing returns when editing/rewriting a piece?
--How long do you wait to return to a piece before revising (or reinstating previous drafts)?
--At what point do you decide to toss it onto the bone pile?
--How often do you go back to the bone pile and either try to scrounge for something useful in a current piece you are writing or try to resurrect something completely?
--If you can pinpoint it-when was your first major experience with language?
--How many poems did you write before you felt you had written a successful piece? What did you think made it successful?
--Which is more important to you—sound or sense?
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