(from today's featured poem/poet at Rattle)
“My whole career has been made of words. Lots of them, all prose. One day about a year and a half ago, I signed up for a poetry workshop, because I realized how tired I was of all those words. They couldn’t say what I needed to say. Poetry gives me that freedom. From start to finish (not that any poem is ever finished), writing a poem surprises me. It makes me happy.”
- Wendy Mitman Clarke
http://www.rattle.com/still-life-wit...mitman-clarke/