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.W.o.W. #19
Chris Biles
What period of your life do you find you write about most often?
The here and the now, both the real and the imagined—but our pasts also come back to us in the present, so I frequently write of those memories that still stick. Rarely if ever do I write of the future.
Who is your greatest writing influence?
Allen Ginsberg. I can’t help but be inspired when I read his words, they move like an unrelenting train and have a similar way of plowing through you when you stand on the tracks.
What does your inner writing voice tell you?
That the fact I’m hearing voices from within may or may not be a problem . . .
You can find Chris Biles’ “Fearless” in Yellow Arrow Journal’s (Re)Formation issue (Vol. V, No. 3), as well as in our prerecorded A Reformative (Re)Formation Reading. Visit her blog chrisbiles03.com to find more incredible poems, prose, stories, musical compositions, and artwork. You can also find Chris on Instagram @marks.in.the.sand.