More Stories, Creative Writing Podcast

This week, on the podcast, poet Dominique Traverse Locke joins me for an interview in which we discuss the benefits of reading (and even writing) poetry for those of us who do not consider ourselves poets.   Enjoy! (A treasure trove of links below!!!)   00:43 Welcome! Unplanned week off for Thanksgiving. Hope your week was good. 02:11 Poetry as another way to feed creativity for our main creative focus. 03:50 Mention of two recent blog posts that are on the same topic. (See links below.) 04:40 Bio of Dominique Traverse Locke 06:33 Three quick notes: an odd sound, a clarification, and a correction. 07:51 Start of the interview, a reading from The Goodbye Child, the poem Stories I Tell. 10:10 Who are you, Dominique? A bit about her writing life, including her migration from fiction to poetry. 13:50 Initial thoughts on poetry for non-poets, and “What IS poetry?” (Includes a long-winded section by yours truly…and my negative attitude about poetry.) 18:50 What IS poetry? (In which Dominique finally gets to speak a