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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.
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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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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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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 just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.
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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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