I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction and I would not have predicted that.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.