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Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
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I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.
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I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.
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I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.
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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.
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I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.
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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.
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My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
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My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
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I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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