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Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not... →
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go... →
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny... →
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are... →
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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