"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."

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"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."

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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

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"Poetry is composing for the breath."

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"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."

Poetry

"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."

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"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."

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"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

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"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."

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