After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to. - Joan Larkin
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.
- Joan Larkin
My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movem… - Joan Larkin
My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movem…
Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead. - Joan Larkin
Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems. - Joan Larkin
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding… - Joan Larkin
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding…
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. - Joan Larkin
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able … - Joan Larkin
Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able …
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in… - Joan Larkin
It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in…
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and ins… - Joan Larkin
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and ins…
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