Floyd Skloot. Interesting name, interesting person. I find it so odd after going to his follow up interview, that one could completely forget a question within 20 seconds of it being asked. I don't really know why, but this blows my mind. I didn't go to his book reading because I had to go listen to another speaker, but I just find it strange that he has that problem. On the other hand, one thing I really liked about him was his honestly about publishing and publication. I think that he was right by saying that you should write to publish, you should write to your fullest potential and not put a time frame on it because then you are hindering yourself from writing the best poem, book, or paper. I also thought it was really really cool that the lady that had been presenting all the writers was his daughter.
Anyway, I didn’t realize how popular the guy I was listening to this morning was until I googled him lol.
This is what some people have to say about him
"A poet of national appeal … these are poems that bear reading again and again … This is a book with a quiet heart, but one that beats with a steady pulse and the certainty of life rushing through the veins. A wide embrace of life even in its most difficult moments, The Evening Light shows us how, in the life responsibly lived, we neither escape our collective and individual memories, nor do we rest nostalgically in them."
—Carolina Quarterly
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I also thought that Floyd Skloot had some really helpful advises to improve your general writing and make one a better writer. He is so experienced and I think it is very impressive how he dealed with his sickness and that he worked so hard to become what he is know – still a great writer.
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