I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
Natasha Trethewey
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was... →
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a... →
'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their... →
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do... →
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
Janine Turner