I was in Lawrence this week visiting friends and I thought to myself well, Kansas, you got yourself here a little gem of place. For a small city, beautiful arts center, seems to have a good deal of cool coffee shops, lots of poets at the university and in the community, not a bad place to write poems, not bad at all.

Of course, if I ate NY prime for a continuous month, I’d be sick of that over time. Meaning: novelty wears off quick.

In other words, I thought if I lived in Lawrence for more than a month, would the writing continue? What about last year in Eastern Kentucky or Woodside, CA in 2004.

I suppose what makes a good place to be a poet is either novelty predicated on work or a place that can be bland as muck but has enough external stimulation to be internally inspired over a long duration.

What says you? Does it matter where you are if you are going to be a poet?