Knowledgeable

[billy]

Yes. Absolutely.

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What threads should I be looking at?

that would be telling

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a quick two cents:

poetry usually takes me on a bit of research when I'm writing. a lot of times, I wikipedia and google/ ask other people about my topic to learn a bit more and add depth to what i'm working with. even if not everything can be used, I usually am able to at least get one word from the outside work.

I remember listening to an author speak about a book she had written about firefighters. She knew little about them in actuality, so she decided to spend some time with fireman, talk to them, read some things, etc. to help create a vivid experience.

It seems like the question is more along the lines of whether or not a person is willing to bridge any gaps they may have while writing, not of they have the answers from the onset. In fact, knowing all of the details at the beginning may hurt creativity (you already know how the story ends in a way. it's hard to break from fact/ what you do know).

i can accept bridging the gaps, even people with experiences do that. i'm more on about stating falsities as fact by omission, by leaving out the most relevant of things and simply writing about the subject because you think you know of it. an analogy;

you see someone jacking junk (injecting heroin) and you write a poem about heroin from a user's POV you see a plane and write a poem from the pilots POV. for me these types of poem need at least some knowledge. what a hit feels like etc.