Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

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I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

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Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

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Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

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Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

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I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

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