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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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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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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 think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.
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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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I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
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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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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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