Q&A …

… A conversation with poet Barbara Hamby on latest book 'Bird Odyssey'. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

In a sense, (writing) becomes easier so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time. You can think, "OK, this is the image that’s rotating in my mind" and start gathering other images up and you start writing...Sometimes you have to keep yourself going under very arduous circumstances. I think most writing lives are filled with more failures than they are successes. You just love the process so much that there’s nothing else that you’d rather do...I could have another "un-acknolwedgements page" for “Turned down by these magazines” which would be three times as long as the book...You have to be able to live with failure.