Thinking about writing and timing and submitting and publishing. One thing that really rang for me as I was constructing “Now” was a friend saying to me (many times), “Not everything written has to be published.” (1) I really took that to heart, esp. in late stages, when I cut 11 poems from the book. I think writers work out all sorts of stuff in the act of writing — but maybe some of it ends up being a private communique, self to self— (2)