William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.