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... →
Robert Morgan
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely... →
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being... →
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century... →
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same... →
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's... →
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in... →
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are... →
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead... →
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison