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“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”

Quote by Denise Duhamel

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Denise Duhamel is a renowned American poet, born on June 13, 1961. Her poetry is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression. Duhamel's work covers a wide range of themes, including family, love, nature, and social issues. more

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“The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.”

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“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”

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“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.”

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“My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."”

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“While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.”

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“I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.”

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“Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.”

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“I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.”

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Author:Denise Duhamel

“If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.”

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“After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.”

Term Urges Publish Skip

Author:Denise Duhamel