I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the …

- Randall Mann

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

- Randall Mann

I am probably going to pay for this at some point, but I think pretty much everyone I come into contact with is fair game. So I use real names someti…

- Randall Mann

I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun working the vernacular of work in…

- Randall Mann

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do bec…

- Randall Mann

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - ev…

- Randall Mann

Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the eve…

- Randall Mann