If a poet writes a poem five days per week and puts about 40 poems into each book, assuming he starts writing at the age of 18 and keeps writing until he dies at 88, he’ll write over 450 books. Well, most poets write far fewer poems for whatever reason. There’s really no good measure of creativity or of obsessiveness. There probably doesn’t need to be one. People write poems for more reasons that we can count, and many are just thrown away. Griff MacAllaster of Sonoma, California, is the exception. He has written more than a poem every day and now at the age of 56, he’s written over 75 books. It doesn’t matter whether he’s published any of them. It matters very little whether any of the poems are good. We can still regard him as a paragon of creativity.
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