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.
Marilyn HackerI think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.
Marilyn HackerPoetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
Marilyn HackerI started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
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