“I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.” ThinkingWritingKindListeningListening To Music Author:Shane McCrae
“I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.” ThinkingKindBodyMinesUncomfortable Author:Shane McCrae
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.” ThinkingKindSometimesDoneMemoriesAbilityStruggleImagineConsequenceProse Author:Shane McCrae
“I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering.” ThinkingKindMeanLongKidsTogetherAudienceImpulseConfessionTied Up Author:Shane McCrae
