Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

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If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special...

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special...

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people...

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people...

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a...

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a...

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a...

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very...

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very...

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject....

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject....

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in...

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in...

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time...

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time...

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that...

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that...

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so...

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so...

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when...

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when...

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language...

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language...

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only...

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only...

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the...

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away...

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away...

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have...

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have...