Lorena asked Robert Priest:

What kinds of things inspire you to write?

Robert Priest I've got a regular regimen of writing, so a lot of my inspiration comes from within the writing itself as I go along these days. When there is something exterior to that that inspires me it is often a news event or some other impressive event or person that I feel a need to comment on or in the case of people praise — in poems — as in my poems in the book Rosa Rose. Sometimes I get commissioned to write things and in that mode you could actually say that the idea of being paid inspires me.

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