Student Profiles: Tim Lockridge
As a poet, my interests change daily, and trying to point toward one dominant
notion or obsession is like trying to pick a favorite song on Pet Sounds — it
changes each time I revisit the record. And what draws me to poetry is
that same lack of definition, that bizarre act of sifting through the mind’s
strange ether and searching for links between the seemingly unlinkable. I
found poetry through Larkin, Levine, and Matthews, and I still carry the interest
in narrative they first fostered for me. Now, however, I enjoy reading
and writing poems that wander and wade through things equally surreal and sentimental. And
while I’m currently in love with a poem that is fractured and obtuse,
tomorrow might find me engaged with a blank-verse investigation of the soul. Poetry’s
unique breadth of style and subject embraces the unknowable, and it keeps me
returning to the page.