Finding the poem’s voice.

Discussing the workshop poems yesterday I was struck with the question: how do you find a poem’s voice? In your poetry, are you the speaker? Do you create personas and write from their voices? What motivates your choices and does it depend on the content of the poem? I’ve written from third-person, distant observer perspective for a while, but nowadays it tends to be more personal and first-person. Curious to hear what you have to say!

—Arthur