“I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.” ThinkingWritingMeanPersonsBookVoicePoetPagesConsciousLibraryIncluding Author:Adrienne Rich
“Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.” KindBookChanceWrittenPoetRedEarsMy FavoriteDialogueDragonsPoeticGet RealChances Are Author:Bryan Fuller
“It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.” FirstsBookMovingFunGrowsPoetSucceedAcceptedPersistencePublishingPublication Author:Allison Joseph
“What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least.” BookWatchesTelevisionPoetThese DaysRevolutionaryFuelGrainFossilsProposeFossil FuelMonoculture Author:Anne Waldman
“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.” IfsThinkingWayArtMadeBookIdeasAbleSchoolUsedMotherArtistPassionFeltInterestTeachCreativeEnvironmentSeeingPoetExpressionGrewFindingsGrew UpHigh SchoolArtisticBreathingTwelveHouseholdSculptureOutletsMy PassionSculptorsOutputVenezuelaArtistic ExpressionInstallationSchool English Author:Jason Silva
“If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems you really like. There are some poets who are fairly big names in contemporary poetry and who write a book and I might like three or four poems in the book, but the rest of them don't appeal to me personally; but I think that's the way it really ought to be. I think it's really a rare thing to like everything that somebody has written.” ThinkingWritingBookPoetGood Book Author:Ted Kooser
“If you're just starting off as an artist, steal as much inspiration from everything you like, as much as you can. Take from books, from poets, from musicians. Just steal stuff from all over the place and then mix it up to make something of your own.” BookInspirationArtistPoetMusicianStealing Author:Yukimi Nagano
“My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general themes - time, place, memory, God, history, class, race, beauty, love, poetry, identity. The core identity is the poet making the poems.” BookMemoriesIdentityPoetLove Poetry Author:Lawrence Joseph
“Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.” ThinkingWritingKindBookFallReadingGoalChallengesWorstChangedPoetHabitNightmareGet AwayPublishingExploringPublishReading Habits Author:Andrew Latimer
“There were illegal poets like Muzaffar al-Nawab, this is the thing - Muzaffar was widely known and he didn't really have books. He would deliver these readings on cassette tape. Go on YouTube and listen to him. He's like a preacher. He's a really interesting figure in modern Iraqi life.” BookReadingInterestingModernPoetPreacherReally Interesting Author:Elliott Colla
“I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.” ThinkingBookPoliticalPoet Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. "Oh, they're too old to make films or write books." You know what I mean?” WritingMeanBookFilmCulturePoetFilmmakerPhenomenon Author:Paul Weller
“Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.” WritingFirstsMayImportantBookMatterMightYoungOrderCasesAchievePoetProductivitySignificantLastingStrongestRelativeInsignificantYoung Writers Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
“Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?” MadeTwoBookNamesLinesWrittenDogPoetTitlesSplendidFleasYeats Author:Richard Dawkins