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“I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.”

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Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey is an American poet, born on September 3, 1973. Her work is known for its unique style and rich imagination, often blending poetry, music, and theatrical elements. more

“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.”

People Ifs Sometimes Age School Left Church Behinds Wonder Sky Bird England Moved Raised Clouds Eight Distraction Kites Methodists

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“I have a vague memory of seeing an image of a child in an iron lung and the phrase "sad little breathing machine" coming into my head. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that on certain days - the worse ones - we could all be described as sad little breathing machines.”

Children Littles Certain Felt Memories Seeing Machines Breathing Phrases Iron Vague Lungs

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“There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.”

Want Feels Writing I Can Book Different Lasts Easy Lines Levels Plans Particular Type Structure Theme Progression

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“I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?”

Writing Believe Narrative Why Not Lyrical Believe You Can

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“If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.”

Ifs Would Be Objects Extras Prose Sheep Sculpture Hinges Wool

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“When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.”

Thinking Knows Writing I Can Prose Pairs Pants Skirts

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“What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.”

People Want Seems Natural Uncomfortable Prose Justify Fence

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“I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.”

Art Differences Fiction Taught Former Prose Latter Flash

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