1) What is the theme of your poem?
The theme of ‘Prussian Blue’ ultimately is about the clash between creativity and human destructiveness.
2) What motivated you to write this poem?
I had watched a doco on Van Gogh’s art and ‘Starry Night’ used a lot of Prussian blue.
3) How long have you been writing poetry?
I have been writing poetry since I was in high school.
4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
I would like to have dinner with Sylvia Plath.
5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?
Just to hear it in someone else’s voice.
6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?
I write short stories, essays, novels, scripts.
7) What is your passion in life?
My passion in life is love and the necessity of it for us to live.
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