15 Questions for Poets Survey

Who is your favorite living poet? or your top 5 favorites if you wish...

What is your favorite poem? poems?

What topics do you prefer to write about?

Where do you get your inspiration?

If you could meet/speak with 3 poets who would they be?

What kind of meal do you want before writing your next best poem?

What musical pieces do you listen to when you write?

How many poems do you write in a week/month or year?

Have you ever read in front of an audience? if so, how often? how many times?

Have you ever written a villanelle? would you do it again?

Pinsky, hass, or lucille clifton?

Do you think whitman is better than dickinson? if so, why?

Did you ever dance with langston hughes? do you know anybody who did?

What are your goals as a poet?

Are you into more into beat poetry than the more classical forms? more into spoken word than prose poems? explain.