Our process is an attempt to (re)-create the aura of a time and place.
Garrett Durbin writes to remove the burden of "poetry" from his poetry. Meaning that, more than the great tradition of poetry or some formal/analytical approach, some beautiful /perfectly formed end product, he wants the process to be firmly embedded in the poetry itself. The beauty and the ugliness, OR NEITHER, of the mind; the mundane, the thought processes that are poetic even if we don't define them that way.
Andrew Mandinach captures small moments from every day life in order to give power to the moments in life. It's about the moments themselves. The work is an attempt to reach poetic/appreciative state for what we gain from specific time and places. There's no barrier for entry because the work is about encapsulating those moments that make the corner of your lips raise, for even the slightest moment.
Collectively, the more clearly we can get readers to think about our own vivid thoughts, their own process of thinking or writing or creating, and how that feels, the better. We don't attempt to articulate a description of what we have to say about the state of the world. We try to be it.