One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up..

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical..

Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as f….

If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who are getting in now….

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend..

Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good wo….

In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of o….

In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play ball. I can't imagine a serious poet w….

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good p….

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry I follow i….

Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic….

"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who are already into ….