“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.” PeopleHumanityCan DoFictionPoetEssaysFiction Writers Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.” IfsBookJoyStruggleShareStudentsPoetDiscoveryDifficultyExcitedPoeticLife ExperienceEssays Author:Dorianne Laux
“In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.” ThinkingLittlesCollegePoetGenreInterpretationEssays Author:John D'Agata
“The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.” ThinkingWorldMindMysteryPoetDramaHonestlyEssaysElusive Author:Charles D'Ambrosio