Why Do You Write Poetry? – Initially NO

Well, that’s it for 2013. But wait! What’s that? Could it be the sound of the bounding of six white boomers? Well, no, but it’s the next best thing: a final answer for the year that was regarding the question no poet worth their salt should shirk from.

Initially NO says:

Because I don’t want to be too unusual.

Adam Ford was co-editor of Going Down Swinging issues #18-#22 and is author of poetry collections The Third Fruit is a Bird, Not Quite the Man for the Job, the novel Man Bites Dog and Heroes and Civilians (short stories).