Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
