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I__ interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real intimacy with my poems. Whether I do that through pulling from my personal life or using my fantasy life__r say history, whether that history is personal history or our collective histories__hat__ important is that an experience is created. An experience that will hopefully matter to people and feel real. I want my poems to move people and make them want to live their lives, however complicated and impossible those lives may be. I think a poem can speak to the life you currently live but also to the lives you__e lived before, the ones to come and also those you__e yet to imagine. What else can do that? Not sex or money or other people.
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I__ interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real intimacy with my poems. Whether I do that through pulling from my personal life or using my fantasy life__r say history, whether that history is personal history or our collective histories__hat__ important is that an experience is created. An experience that will hopefully matter to people and feel real. I want my poems to move people and make them want to live their lives, however complicated and impossible those lives may be. I think a poem can speak to the life you currently live but also to the lives you__e lived before, the ones to come and also those you__e yet to imagine. What else can do that? Not sex or money or other people.

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