My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.
Cate MarvinPlace is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
Cate MarvinConfessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.
Cate MarvinI place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
Cate Marvin