I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.
I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. - Matthea Harvey
I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.
- Matthea Harvey
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
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.
Teaching is a great way to keep learning. - Matthea Harvey
Teaching is a great way to keep learning.
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 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…
Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are. - Matthea Harvey
Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.
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
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.
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
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…
Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride. - Matthea Harvey
Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.
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
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…
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