[Maryann Corbett]

I've completed both the survey and the e-mail interview, which has questions that are open ended and that allow for expansive answers. What's remarkable to me is that the questions seem to assume that there will be folks who compose poetry, from the outset, with a word processor.

I write letters and legal prose that way, but not poetry. I can't, and I really don't know what gets in the way of that. My only theory is that the mindset of touch typing somehow interferes for me.

I'm curious to hear from people who start out at the screen.