“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.” WritingFilmActingPaintingPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasAvailableTeenager Author:Denise Duhamel
“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.” MadeBookFilmActorsCuttingWrittenPoetTvsShapesForgottenObviousActressesScreensTiesProseLeapLegendaryAvant GardeMiniaturesActors And ActressesFilm Actors Author:Denise Duhamel
“Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."” ArtDreamFilmFormCultureMediaVisualsPoetry IsFactoriesDominantPresent DayProxy Author:Denise Duhamel