More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the...
I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its...
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding...
In a general way I want to be a kind of flag-waver bunting hanger-up...
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums...
Poetry is at the centre of my life too emotionally speaking and...
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether the...
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom on the stairs everywhere. The...
Poetry is a mere drug Sir.
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry but film...
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor and...
I write all the time - I write poetry I love to write.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Science is for those who learn poetry is for those who know.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it...
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make...
A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a...
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the...
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years....
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