Ten Questions

“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Don’t trap yourself into false models of production and worth.” —Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer

“I love when a poem is getting there, when I can’t stop coming back to it.” —Alise Alousi, author of What to Count

“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood

“Finish the draft. Nothing else matters.” —Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe

“I had to learn through writing the book how to discipline my creativity so that I could write whenever and wherever I needed to.” —Stacy Jane Grover, author of Tar Hollow Trans

"I write as often and for as long as I can.” —Helen Schulman, author of Lucky Dogs

“Writing this book forced me to deal with, and face, some parts of my personality that haven’t served me.” —Kwame Alexander, author of Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

“You are going to read a book that will inspire you to write a book.” —Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life

“You write one poem precisely so that you can write the next.” —Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return

“Your voice is your voice. Your voice. No one else’s.” —Dean Rader, author of Before the Borderless: Dialogues With the Art of Cy Twombly