Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.
Matthea HarveyWhat I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.
Matthea HarveyI don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.
Matthea HarveyPeople "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"
Matthea Harvey