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… In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors- Maryann Corbett | Water~Stone Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I find it very difficult to write real free verse. My quirkiest habit is my need to have a meter in mind before I start writing, and most of my poems end up at least roughly metrical. I’ve said this before: I think of rhyme as a ladder down into the dark of the subconscious and of meter as the underground spring I find there.