I can legitimately bill myself as an ‘award-winning writer.’ I mean I have actual awards for writing, not counting all the ones for my art and other endeavors. However, those writing awards are for poetry, not prose.
When it comes to publication, I’ve had more success placing poems than stories, as well. I do continue to consider myself as much a poet as anything else, but the poet speaks to a rather small audience—even when he slips across the border into songwriter territory.
I know I should not worry over much about an audience. As Merton advised, I write neither for that audience nor for myself, but for God. That is, I write for the universe. My poetry is a conversation with the universe. I should hope my prose would be, as well.
Whether it is listening, I’ve no idea.
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