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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

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I'm never bored.

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 8th, 1940

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