I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know,…

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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's...

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French...

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French...

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language...

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...