Red Room Where the Writers Are

I just joined RedRoom, and I thought that answering this question will give people a better  understanding of who I am.

Why I write?

 My friend Gil Mansergh did his master's thesis on creativity in children, and his e-mail brought up some interesting points. He said:

Where does it come from, and how do we call upon it, nurture it and sustain it?

As an author I prefer, and practice, selecting a name for my work that is somewhat enigmatic and generates maximum curiosity in the mind of the browser or grazer of bookshelves or online inventories. 

Being a wordsmith, I respond strongly to language, especially in the wording of titles.  (Yes, first impressions do count for me.) Regrettably, the language of our contemporary culture has been whittled down to the most basic vocabulary and the most semantically empty sound bites.

Gone are the days of deadlines, exhaustive (and exhausting) research, scholarly discipline, operating within rigid outlines, assembling bibliographical references and inserting pesky footnotes...

I am POET now, see me roam!

Writing poetry affords me the ultimate freedom of mobility and I love it. The dynamics of seeking out ever-changing locales for writing enhances the flow of my poetry from my pen onto the pages of my notebook.