Southern Poets Are Still Writing Narrative Poems,

The Fact That Something Is In A Rhymed Form Or In Blank Verse Will Not Make It Good Poetry.

I Encourage Students To Pursue An Idea Far Enough So They Can See What The Cliches And Stereotypes Are. Only Then Do They Begin To Hit Pay Dirt.

Pound's Translation Of Chinese Poetry Was Maybe The Most Important Thing I Read. Eliot A Little Bit Later.

Maybe The Example Of Southern Fiction Writing Has Been So Powerful That Southern Poets Have Sort Of Keyed Themselves To That.

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