Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Matthea HarveyI certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?
Matthea HarveyI think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.
Matthea Harvey