The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements... →
James Lasdun
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it... →
James Laughlin
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at... →
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he... →
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the... →
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather... →
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and... →
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Comte de Lautreamont
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
Chang-Rae Lee