Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events,

I Don't Think The Creative Writing Industry Has Helped American Poetry.

One Of The Most Powerful Devices Of Poetry Is The Use Of Distortions. You Can Go From Talking About The Way A Minute Passes To The Way A Century Passes, Or A Lifetime.

The Great Watershed Of Modern Poetry Is French, More Than English.

When You Have An Idea For A Story, You Want Those Characters To Reach As Many People As You Can. I Think You Normally Think Of Prose As A Way Of Doing That. It Fits Our Time, The Culture.

If A Poem Is Not Memorable, There's Probably Something Wrong. One Of The Problems Of Free Verse Is That Much Of The Free Verse Poetry Is Not Memorable.