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“I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.”

Quote by Matthea Harvey

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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

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“I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.”

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“Teaching is a great way to keep learning.”

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“To be a poet you have to experiment.”

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“Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on AM 532 and the next it's on FM 92.8.”

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“Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.”

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“I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.”

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“I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.”

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