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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as...

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as...

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that...

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, 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...

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so...

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so...

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...

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be...

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be...

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read...

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read...

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of...

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of...

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have...

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have...

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...

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

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

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...

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin....

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin....

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem...

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem...

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...

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not...

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not...

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

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...