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For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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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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 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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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
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I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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'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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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.
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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've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.
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I think my way of being funny is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.
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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've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.
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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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