The Phenomenon Of University Creative Writing Programs

The Woman Poet Must Be Either A Sexless, Reclusive Eccentric, With Nothing To Say Specifically To Women, Or A Brilliant, Tragic, Tortured Suicide.

Poetry Seems To Have Been Eliminated As A Literary Genre, And Installed Instead, As A Kind Of Spiritual Aerobic Exercise - Nobody Need Read It, But Anybody Can Do It.

Everyone Thinks They're Going To Write One Book Of Poems Or One Novel.

The Phenomenon Of University Creative Writing Programs Doesn't Exist In France. The Whole Idea Is Regarded As A Novelty, Or An Oddity.

I Try To Write Everyday. I Do That Much Better Over Here Than When I'm Teaching. I Always Rewrite, Usually Fairly Close-on Which Is To Say First Draft, Then Put It Aside For 24 Hours Then More Drafts.