One of the challenges of writing poetry for other people, for these custom poems that have served as a lifeline through this pandemic, is picking and choosing the details that will make their way into the poetry. I am often presented with dozens and dozens of personal details, anecdotes, inside jokes, even quotes, that people wish to see immortalized in their story, pieces they think are crucial and instrumental in the telling. The truth is,
When you’re trying to put all these pieces together for custom poems, is your process the same as your usual typewriter series? By that, I mean once you’ve let the ideas marinade in your head for a while do you sit down and write in stream of thought? Or for these do you take an approach that involves editing?
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When you’re trying to put all these pieces together for custom poems, is your process the same as your usual typewriter series? By that, I mean once you’ve let the ideas marinade in your head for a while do you sit down and write in stream of thought? Or for these do you take an approach that involves editing?