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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'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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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 think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, did she say that out loud? kind of humor.
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Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.
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Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.
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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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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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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.
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I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
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Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.
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I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
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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 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've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.
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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 think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
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