top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
Art
"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."
Poetry
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
Poems
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"I feel very connected to poets across the country."
Nation
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
Emotional
"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
Creativity
"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."
Poetry
bottom of page