Poetic License

In a recent interview with a teacher/author who started writing poetry in his 70s, the interviewer emphasized the guy’s age a couple of different times—asking, for example, “… at the age of 75—why?”

The writer had already been focusing on wisdom and insight, in prose, for decades. Is it so odd that he’d turn to a slightly different approach? The more sensible question, I’d think, would be “Why not?”

What’s the correct age to become a poet, anyway?

Besides, as another poet* famously asked, “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

*Thank you, Mary Oliver

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