Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American...
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young...
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important...
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers...
Poetry almost by definition calls attention to its language and form.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets...
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several...
The great watershed of modern poetry is French more than English.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern...
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I...
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry...
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
Poetry isn't a profession it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put...
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry...
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
On July 26 1916 I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I...
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the...
A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of...
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry it's just obtuse to them....
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I...
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress so I...
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old...
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration but isolation...
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
