American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry..

My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing to failure. I wan….

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet that I know of who writes in Eng….

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial ….

I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funn….

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally a….

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight..

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civili….

A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And….

I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet o….

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings..

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry..

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry..