DAVID ATWOOD- POET EXTRAORDINAIRE
Poets are a different sort of writer, not better nor worst than other writers of fiction and non-fiction. While so-called "normal" writers write on subjects commonly not about themselves (other than in autobiographies), poets, in essence, are writing about their inner selves in a broad sense. The words they choose come through the filter of their soul, regardless of what subject they are writing about. The words that they write are chosen eloquently and succinctly, as though each and every word
