It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

- Campbell Mcgrath

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find n…

- Campbell Mcgrath

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not v…

- Campbell Mcgrath

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps…

- Campbell Mcgrath

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

- Campbell Mcgrath

Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger iss…

- Campbell Mcgrath

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poet…

- Campbell Mcgrath

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the trick…

- Campbell Mcgrath

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read p…

- Campbell Mcgrath