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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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

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...

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...

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...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

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...

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...

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...

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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...

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think,...

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think,...

Love and friendship exclude each other

Love and friendship exclude each other