I wrote almost entirely in traditional forms until I was around twenty-one. This was wonderful training for my sense of rhythm in a poem, which is a quality that poets who grew up writing only in free verse sometimes have difficulty with. 

Now I rarely write in traditional forms, but I do love to engage with them. I want to write not in the tradition, but in the post-tradition. I want the reader to see not a sonnet, but the ghost of a sonnet, hovering behind the page.