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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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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 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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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 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've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.
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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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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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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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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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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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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 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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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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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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There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
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