Ask the Author: Barbara Crooker
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Barbara Crooker
I don't believe in writer's block, partly because my life is pretty restricted, as I'm the full-time caregiver of my son, who has autism. So, if I have some quiet time to write, I grab it!
Barbara Crooker
Seeing your work in print, and getting responses to it, especially from people outside my circle of family and friends.
Barbara Crooker
Read, read, read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. . . .
Barbara Crooker
I have two new manuscripts, one with ekphrastic work about Fauve and other Post-Impressionist paintings coupled with word experiment poems, and one on the Book of Kells, which also includes a number of glosas, poems incorporating 4 line stanzas from other poets (I used Irish poets). Then I have a group of new poems on a variety of subjects that I'm still working on, but that were started on a recent residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Barbara Crooker
I'm of the school that writing doesn't come from inspiration, but rather, perspiration, so I chain myself to my desk every day, and try to keep on writing.
Barbara Crooker
This book (Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems) didn't really come from an idea, but rather, it seemed like it was time to create a Selected from my previously published (and out of print) chapbooks.
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