WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE A POET? a young woman asked me recently.  The question startled me.  What's it like to be? Hugo Williams, taught me to ‘show, don’t tell’ when making poems and I suppose that’s really how I’ve run my life.  We all experience bursts of inspiration whether through art or through the endeavor of living.  But rather than allow it to imbue every aspect of our being – fully become inspiration, we immediately begin to manage it, wrangle it into something concrete. read more