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I Have Experienced Healing Through Other Writers' Poetry, But There's No Way I Can Sit Down To Write In The Hope A Poem Will Have Healing Potential. If I Do, I'll Write A Bad Poem.

Given The Devaluation Of Literature And Of The Study Of Foreign Languages Per Se In The United States, As Well As The Preponderance Of Theory Over Text In Graduate Literature Studies, Creative Writing Programs Keep Literature Courses Populated.

There Is A Way In Which All Writing Is Connected. In A Second Language, For Example, A Workshop Can Liberate The Students' Use Of The Vocabulary They're Acquiring.

I've Been An Inveterate Reader Of Literary Magazines Since I Was A Teenager. There Are Always Discoveries. You're Sitting In Your Easy Chair, Reading; You Realize You've Read A Story Or A Group Of Poems Four Times, And You Know, Yes, I Want To Go Farther With This Writer.

I Don't Know Whether A Poem Has Be There To Help To Develop Something. I Think It's There For Itself, For What The Reader Finds In It.