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And even for those who win the writing lottery, I doubt that fame or fortune comes without some true costs. But if you love the creative act of dreaming new worlds, new characters, of writing about true places and people, if you love playing with words, listening to the happy accidents words create, then pursue this passion by reading the very best writers, by reading the work that is being published and praised in the present.
Try to learn how these writers have constructed their stories and poems.
The Chart of Darkness
Imitate that construction. Pay attention to the world. Learn the names for the things you see. Learn how to do physical things. Fill your stories and poems with these physical objects and acts.
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The metaphors will be built from these physical objects and acts and will then begin to do the hard work of carrying the emotions and ideas you hope to communicate. What do you wish you had been told as a writer? What wisdom have you arrived at? I only had one creative writing class in my education. I took a poetry workshop with the Zen Buddhist poet Lucien Stryk. As a result, my mentors or teachers were books.
Inspiration or the muse is wonderful when it visits, but that happens so seldom.
Shelter From the Wind
Then think about the long-haul, the long-marriage with your craft. William Stafford was 46 when he published his first major collection, as was Billy Collins. This is hard for many young people to accept. We are a results-oriented culture. We praise and hold up the young, the savant. Whose work helped you write this book? What inspires you? What gets you to the page? My inspiration is the complexity of the natural world.
But that sounds so abstract! The veined colors in the small petals of wood sorrel inspire me, as do the tendrilled blossoms of witch hazel in November. The track of a bear or fisher or bobcat in the snow. The poems of others who have come before me. Living with Shelly, my wife of thirty years, watching my sons grow and change.
In some ways, perhaps my father is always the person who inspires me to write poems. Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Native Species and Winterkill , both published by Michigan State University Press. Perhaps a poem that invites the reader into the world of the book? After the Occupation, when I was five, my GI father left Japan under increasing anti-American sentiment and brought his Japanese wife and mixed-race children to the Rust Belt of America, where I grew up.
Aside from the challenges of adapting to a new land, a new language, there was the constant struggle to belong, to construct an identity that was half Japanese, half American in the absence of community. That struggle had its parallel in poetry. At the university, I found an absence of poems that spoke to the Japanese experience aside from a few tokens, and none represented the diverse experiences of middle- and lower-class Asian Americans. I hope to enlarge the canon. Call it the myth of a Japanese-American identity.
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These poems evoke the tension between conformity and conflict, between belonging and alienation. Is there one poem that catalyzed or inspired the rest of the book? What do you remember about writing it? This is the strange weather when the kitsune —foxes—are believed in folklore to have their weddings. It ends with the boy setting off for the mountains, where the foxes live, and a rainbow.
As I revised the poem, the cartoon-image became a vehicle to say what it means to wage war with self, with history, with culture. Everything changes—nothing is separate or self-contained. Nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net , and featured on Poetry Daily , her poems have been awarded the Thomas Merton poetry prize and prizes from the H. Journal and Washington Square. But when I gave the first reading draft of the novel to friends, they almost all agreed I should center from the very beginning on Check, the main character.
So I moved that scene further in. Did you have ethical concerns about developing characters inspired by historical figures? This is something I frequently wrestle with. I resolved my ethical concerns by creating likeable people. Mostly that was because this great-grandfather of mine and a great-great-grandmother, also in the book as Nannie Cordery, both were orphans. I wondered about them, in particular, because one of my first cousins looked like a fullblood. My mother had no doubt that her grandfather and great uncle those two boys were Indians.
So I knew there was more Indian blood in our line than was accounted for and suspected they were the answer. That got me to investigating the entire Dawes Rolls mess, and into finding out all I could about my ancestors. I discovered after considerable digging that my great-grandfather was actually a Choctaw. About the time I solved that mystery, I started writing. But I kept on reading Cherokee history because, by then, I was hooked, and we are, culturally, Cherokee, not Choctaw. Or harder than any others.
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But I spent a lot of time on the bawdy house scenes. That was, I think, because I enjoyed them so much. I like thinking about rowdy behavior, and adding in little brushstrokes gave me a lot of pleasure. It evokes my imagination. My grandmother had lived in it as a child, and one of her brothers raised his family in it. My mother spent many a night visiting her cousins inside those walls and had very pleasant memories of those times. But the house has always seemed delightfully spooky to me. Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
She lives in Lexington, Kentucky. How much of the content is about your life, and how much is imagined or taken from the experiences of others?
Are the poems autobiographical? Are you the speaker in these poems, or do you imagine your readers also becoming the speakers?
This whole book is about my life and some of the places, people, and events that have informed it. I am the speaker in the poems. I think the poems are written in a way that makes a reader want to enter through the door of the story, so in that sense, they may feel inclined to implicate themselves in certain poems, which I think is great.
Even if they are not my own, there are points of deep resonance that really motivate me to continue reading. DE: I know that in Nigeria, where I come from, and many other countries like Sierra Leone and the United States, there is some resistance from family and friends when you say you want to be a writer or an English major.
When you knew that you wanted to write, did you face any resistance from your parents and relatives? Where there any books, persons or events that influenced your decision? This is a fabulous question. Law was my last hope—I tried and tried to be interested, but it never clicked. But writing just kept rearing its head every step of the way.
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It was kind of inescapable. I had never seen anything like it and was so unbelievably moved that I wanted to write and not stop. That was the turning point for me. Following that, I began to attend poetry and spoken word workshops through Youth Speaks ; I slammed for the SF Bay Area team at nationals for my junior and senior year of high school. This is also how I came to learn about Valencia and work with them as well. I am still taken by how what seems like a coincidence changed the course of my life. When I was younger, I think my mother was a bit dubious about this pursuit, because she was unsure of my overall commitment to writing and because of its seemingly impractical nature.
In spite of this, she really came around to supporting me a long time ago. My sisters Fatmata, Kai, and Jenneh have been really supportive and kind as well. I think they all trusted me. As for the rest of my family, they trusted me because my mother, who is the matriarch, gave me her blessings! I was ecstatic to have my poem published in a physical book alongside youth poets that I had come to know from writing workshops and spoken word events put together by Youth Speaks.
I felt really proud to be able to flip through such a beautiful and bold book and see my poem alongside some of my youth heroes. Before then, it was hard to imagine young people as published authors. Being a part of Youth Speaks, Valencia, and this anthology have been some of the driving forces in my desire to support young artists. Why did you persist?