I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
