“I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.” IfsWantLanguageGrowsPayAttentionPracticePoetSentencesPay AttentionProseImpatientCadence Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldWritingSocialJusticeConsciousnessCompassionEmpathySocial JusticeEnvironmentalImpulseSustainability Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.” PeopleThinkingWantSpiritCultureSpeakAnimalAcceptingPlanetsPoetEmpathyConcernEnvironmentalOppressionDisadvantaged Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.” WantWritingProcessMysteryTeachingTalentStudentsDisciplineFindingsAdmireArtisticArtistic ProcessArtistic Talent Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.” WantHoursAudienceAddEsteemRecognitionDesksDaydreaming Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
