“Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.” StudentsPoetPreacherTheologicalPresbyterians Author:William Saroyan
“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.” YearsFirstsArtArtistActorsStageStudentsPoetMovedUniversityI RealizedCaliforniaPerformersDeafFestivalsSigningMoved OnInterpretingInterpreterCoordinatingI Moved On Author:Jack Jason
“I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.” WantGivingCoursesTeachNovelStudentsPoetShotsLecturesAmerican PoetryHigh Points Author:Robert Hass
“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
“There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.” SometimesStudentsPoetReaderGreat PoetDistressing Author:Edward Hirsch
“Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.” PeopleWantFirstsStatesFiguresStudentsPoetPraiseShockGraduatesPublic FiguresGraduate Students Author:Erica Jong
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveChildrenStoriesYoungReadingI BelieveEnjoyClassTeachSunStudentsPoetReaderHabitTheaterScriptsContemporaryRelateThese DaysUsualInteractionTwilightCraveGood WritingAnnaReading Habits Author:Renee Watson
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” BlackRocksStudentsPoetFriendsMy FriendsPerformancesFeministActiveProfessorsPunkMistakenPunk RockMarxistAnti-americanLeather JacketsDreams From My Father Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father