So ... when you write your poetry, where do you get your ideas .. where do they come from? And do you follow a process when you write your poetry?

Jeffrey D. J. Kallenberg

I would say, off hand, that 99 percent of what I create when I'm writing is about everyday things. Now, obviously, with "Peking Duck" that was my reaction to 9-11.

Most of the poetry that I write is inspirational. It's either with a relationship ... it's with something that I see. Those of us that are fortunate enough to write know that very few poems or plays or novels fall from heaven. So something has to inspire them and you immediately write them, as a matter of fact, you have no choice but to go write them. It's something that drives you. But after they're on paper the first time, my process is to leave them there for a day ... a week ... rewrite then rewrite then rewrite. Look at them two weeks later and then rewrite and then rewrite. So I would say that in most cases what is write is inspirational, or is inspired I should say, and then after that it's just rewritten until I think it's right.

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