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.
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.
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…
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.
Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride. - Matthea Harvey
Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.
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…
Teaching is a great way to keep learning. - Matthea Harvey
Teaching is a great way to keep learning.
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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