Books by Ed Krizek

Since college I have had an interest in writing. I didn’t explore it much at that time.  I did visit my freshman English professor and said that I would like to write down all the things that I had experienced up until that point in my life. He glibly asked, “Have you ever seen a psychiatrist?” I didn’t know what to say. I had seen a therapist for a bit but didn’t understand what that had to do with writing. Over the years I finally came to believe that my professor thought that working out problems in therapy might be more helpful than working them out on the page. It might be better to be happy than a tortured writer. I never wrote much more than the required paper in college.  Later in life I did see a therapist who advised me to write so I began writing a journal in 1990. 

After some time had passed,  I began drafting short stories. Just for fun.  I joined a writing group in the nineties. I began writing one short story a week to coincide with my weekly meetings. Those stories are collected in my book, “Memories Lost”. After a while I began writing poetry. I had my first poem published in 1999 and have been writing mainly poetry since then and have over one hundred poems published. You can see some of my work on my website edkrizek.com.

I chose to write poetry because of its conciseness. In a short story it takes several pages and a lot of words to make an observation. In poetry one line can suffice. I like to call readers’ attention to small inconsequential things in the world and show how they fit into the web of life. It is also important to me to connect with readers on a personal level. I want everyone to be able to understand my work.