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Crystal K. Odelle
I met Rebecca years ago because we both teach writing at a community college in Albuquerque. In the fall, I actually took her online poetry class and loved it (and if you know me, you know I’ll write almost anything but poetry, but this class gave me a new appreciation for all that goes into writing a poem). She’s a great writer and community builder, and we know you’re going to love her words when we feature her next month. Please enjoy our interview with her! Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Rebecca Aronson: I’m not sure when I began to think of myself as a writer, but I have always been interested in writing. I remember (or maybe I have been told about it. Memory is funny that way.) pretending to write in notebooks before I really could write, and, once I did learn to write I always liked writing poems and stories. When I was about 15 I took my first poetry workshops at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. I took several classes there over the years, and I always loved them. However, I don’t think I wrote very much in between taking those classes. I think I only took one poetry workshop as an undergraduate, and it took me about five years after getting my BA to decide to try to study poetry more actively. While in graduate school at UNM I got involved with the nascent slam scene in Albuquerque, and some of my first experiences reading my poems to an audience were at the old Dingo and 66 bars. The bar-poetry scene then was active and interesting and warm (it might still be, but I haven’t been in years); I’m by no stretch of imagination a slam poet, but I did learn valuable lessons about performing poetry from those early experiences. Those early slam-scene years were probably when I first started to think of myself as a writer. P: Where do you get your ideas? RA: Looking out my window, reading the news, family stories, living, words I like the sounds of, art work, daydreaming. I often start with a sort of ear bug of a phrase I like the sound of and then move by association from there. I’ve learned to trust that imagery and sound will do a better job of helping me work out an idea than setting out to think … Read more
