[New-Poetry] something

[Bob Grumman]

On 1/1/2011 4:41 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> like this can make you feel just _nobody_:

Not me.  I just felt annoyed by the question.  What defines me as a 
writer is that I put words down on paper, or the equivalent thereof; 
what defines me as a poet is that I try to do things to those words to 
make them not prose.  I suspect, though, that whoever made up the 
question wanted to find out what one's goals as a writer/poet were.  
Ultimately, to give pleasure to others in as many different ways 
simultaneously as possible--aesthetic pleasure in the case of poetry, 
verosophical pleasure in the case of my prose.