High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.