If you don't know about Poetry Net's poet of the month, you should.
Check out the poet of the month archives, for example, October, 2004, James Richardson, particularly his #5 and #6 aphorisms:
"All work is the avoidance of harder work."
"When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing."
and A.E. Stallings Feb 2001
ReplyDelete"when I encountered Catullus in the original, I was shocked at how utterly modern the voice sounded—more so, I might add, than that of many poems I was reading in magazines—and how he was able to incorporate any subject—from the mundane to the sublime, from the sacred to the obscene—in the strictest and most elaborate of forms.