But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

It's very hard to write humor.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.