Writing
Ghigna’s influences on his early writing attempts included his parents, especially his creative mother, poets Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Ogden Nash, John Updike, and James Dickey. Today he also finds that other people and situations evoke ideas when least expected.
Ideas for Ghigna’s poems rarely come from a preconceived goal. Rather, they come while going through routine daily activities: talking to children or his son, mowing the lawn, driving down the road, his childhood, etc.—really anywhere! As ideas come, he writes them down on anything handy, a napkin, hotel stationery, scraps of paper, sticky notes, yellow legal tablets, or anything he can quickly get his hands on when not at his computer to make sure he does not forget anything. Writing is something he does every single day in his "treehouse" located in the attic of his home, unless he has to be away for a conference or another trip. Even when he is gone from home, Ghigna writes as much as possible.
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