The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egre…

- Katy Lederer

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

- Katy Lederer

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

- Katy Lederer

To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account…

- Katy Lederer

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

- Katy Lederer

We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic mar…

- Katy Lederer

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

- Katy Lederer

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

- Katy Lederer

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

- Katy Lederer