Stephen Dobyns — American Poet born on February 19, 1941,
Stephen J. Dobyns is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey, and residing in Westerly, RI... (wikipedia)
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
