POLITICS AND POETRY

My poems sometimes take a political turn. My prose seldom does, and if so, it tends to be less blunt, more circumspect. Confined in real-world time and place, the plot of a story or novel will address what concerns me, particularly the plight of women, but always as part of the larger picture made necessary by the edicts of good fiction. Another way of saying this is that the people I write about are more important than their challenges. Their complexity, the extent…