Going over Ocean Vuong and Karen Solie’s edits of my poems.
I had the pleasure of meeting them at the Banff Centre during my Writing Studio residency in May 2017.
Karen’s edits were so meticulous, every semi-colon was interrogated; I loved it:
Ocean was all about naming other poets for spark + pushing your personal myth:
Writing must be 73% editing.
In the final sprint: editing over editing, with an editing cherry on top.
I look forward to creating again soon. This editing business is… exhausting.
Branka petrovic 