I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.

- Juliana Spahr

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

- Juliana Spahr

Genre/forms are institutional questions mainly. Like matter to MFA programs in terms of which workshop you can teach.

- Juliana Spahr

What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apar…

- Juliana Spahr

I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?

- Juliana Spahr