How do you determine what form a poem will take? For instance, do you sit down to write a cento? Do you sit down to write long lines, or does the poem itself dictate that to you?

Patrick Rosal Q&A on the form of Uncommon Denominators

Patrick Rosal, author of Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive and Assistant Professor of English at Bloomfield College, on the form of Uncommon Denominators