The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

The problem is we think we exist.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.