Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

- Matthea Harvey

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

- Matthea Harvey

I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I tho…

- Matthea Harvey

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definit…

- Matthea Harvey

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

- Matthea Harvey

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

- Matthea Harvey

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

- Matthea Harvey

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

- Matthea Harvey

Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each ev…

- Matthea Harvey