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....
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 do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.