I Worked At All Kinds

I Wonder What It Means About American Literary Culture And Its Transmission When I Consider The Number Of American Poets Who Earn Their Living Teaching Creative Writing In Universities. I've Ended Up Doing That Myself.

Poetry 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.

Clearly, Once The Student Is No Longer A Student The Possibilities Of Relationship Are Enlarged.

I Think There Is Something About Coming To A City To Work That Puts You In Touch With It In A Different Way.

Everyone Thinks They're Going To Write One Book Of Poems Or One Novel.