What don’t people generally understand about poetry?
KR: I guess what people don’t understand is that they need to trust themselves. The optimal experience of poetry is collaboration between the writer and the reader. There are literary forms where you feel the author’s hand at the helm a lot more strongly. Poetry is an interaction that depends on the reader. In poetry a lot of the process of reading depends on the reader working with the writer. For that reason, poetry is more difficult. It requires more. So, people get scared of it, but it also has the potential to be so much more powerful than the other arts. Poetry can actually change the way you see the world if you let it. But I think, often times, people don’t trust themselves to make meaning. WW: How do you approach your work? How do you create? KR: Basically, my process is to just write a lot and to allow myself to do writing that ultimately fails. I do a lot of bad of writing. And that’s the working process. So, my approach is to overwrite a lot of what I need and then to spend
