Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events,

Part Of What We Love About Poetry Is The Fact That It Seems Ancient, That It Has An Authority Of Ancient Language And Ancient Form, And That It's Timeless, That It Reaches Back.

A Lot Of My Students Are Asian-american, And It Has Been Thrilling To Watch Them Break Through The Stereotypes Into Something Alive And Surprising.

Young Writers Find Their First Audience In Little Magazines, And Experimental Writers Find Their Only Audience There.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.

One Of The Biggest Changes That Ever Occurred In My Life Was Going From The Isolation Of Working Part-time As A House Painter In Henderson County, To Cornell, Where Everybody Was A Literary Person.