I like to think of my writing as praxis in the Aristotelian sense, but I do think about the notions of time and memory a lot. We’ll see how that goes.Ħ - Do you have any theoretical concerns behind your writing? What kinds of questions are you trying to answer with your work? What do you even think the current questions are? I’ve been out of the habit of giving readings for a long time but have recently decided to try my hand at them again. For me poetry will always happen on the page, hearing a poem read aloud is hearing a personality first and foremost. I think public readings, usually, are an entirely different endeavor than writing. For me the construct “book” is rather arbitrary, usually it’s just a kind of shorthand for referring to a specific period of time.ĥ - Are public readings part of or counter to your creative process? Are you the sort of writer who enjoys doing readings? I tend to think of my writing as a continuous process. I maintain the original sequence of the writing and just remove the parts that get in the way, often these are my favorite parts.Ĥ - Where does a poem or work of fiction usually begin for you? Are you an author of short pieces that end up combining into a larger project, or are you working on a "book" from the very beginning? Once I’ve finished the project I let it sit for 9 months to a year.
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From there I do sometimes set certain parameters for it, working on a piece of writing for 100 days or for a full year or writing 100 small poems in a month. My writing accumulates, on that I can count. It helped that I could write it on little cards and present them to my girlfriend, who, I’m happy to say, has been my wife for the last 20 years.ģ - How long does it take to start any particular writing project? Does your writing initially come quickly, or is it a slow process? Do first drafts appear looking close to their final shape, or does your work come out of copious notes? I guess I liked that poetry is fast and densely made. I felt, and still feel, a huge urge to write fiction but the words keep getting in the way which is where poetry comes in. When I started writing I was 19 or so and I wrote fiction and poems.
I’m not sure that I did come to poetry first. I feel lucky each time I publish a book.Ģ - How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction? The fact is the work is my life, by which I do not mean that it consumes my life but that it constitutes it. My recent work is a continuation of my previous work. The publication of my first book made me feel lucky and connected, however tenuously, to a world I’d been away from for a long time but I don’t think it changed my life in any real way.
He lives in Huntersville, NC with his wife of 20 years and their two children, and works as a freelance writer for the health and wellness industry and will soon be teaching writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.ġ - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel different? His work has received an &Now award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Fence, Verse, TYPO, Colorado Review, and has been anthologized in Far from the Centers of Ambition: A Celebration of Black Mountain College and A Best of Fence, The First Nine Years, Volume I. Lance Phillips has published four books of poetry ( Mimer, Corpus Socius, Cur Aliquid Vidi, and These Indicium Tales) with Ahsahta Press, and a book of experimental autobiography ( Imposture Notebook) with Blazevox Books.
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