I Don't Think The Creative

Young Writers Find Their First Audience In Little Magazines, And Experimental Writers Find Their Only Audience There.

With Prose You Can Incorporate More Details, Develop Scenes, Sustain The Tension In A Special Way. Prose Has Its Own Speed.

Philip Larkin Has A Tough Honesty And Sense Of Humor That I Find Irresistible, As A Contemporary Poet.

We Have A Lot Of Long Narrative Poems Written In The 20th Century, But They're Not Very Well Known, And They're Not Read By Very Many People.

I Don't Think American Poetry Has Gotten Any Better In The Past 35 Years. Oddly Enough, Creative Writing Programs Seem To Have Been Good For Fiction, And I Would Not Have Predicted That.