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Bob writes, "Cindy and I have been close friends for years.<br />
We are familiar with each other's writing, and have<br />
published each other in our respective publications. It was<br />
Cindy who first suggested that we try our hand at some<br />
collaborations. We decided that each piece would be 14<br />
lines, and that we would alternate first lines, as well as the<br />
subsequent lines in each piece. And that's what we did,<br />
except for a few prose poems in which we instead<br />
alternated sentences. All the pieces were written by e-mail.<br />
We started our first piece in late June 2017, and completed<br />
75 pieces during the next eight months. While our<br />
approaches were a bit different, we ended up working quite<br />
well together. We are currently taking a break from the<br />
collaborations to work on our own creative projects. This<br />
was not my first experience with collaborations, having<br />
previously worked in 2008 with R. Nemo Hill, Jane<br />
Ormerod, and Thomas Fucaloro (and later, several<br />
others) in a series of intense collaborative writing sessions<br />
which used a very different process."<br />
Cindy adds, "The 75 poems I wrote with Bob represent my<br />
first foray into collaboration. The most satisfying and<br />
gratifying part for me was that, as a rather non-prolific poet<br />
who struggles with writer's block, it jump-started me into<br />
poetic mode every day and forced me to take risks in an<br />
attempt to reach a new level of creativity. And I was<br />
delighted with all the little surprises that materialized along<br />
the way."
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