There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

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...

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...

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.

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...

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.