Young Writers Find Their First

One Of The Biggest Changes That Ever Occurred In My Life Was Going From The Isolation Of Working Part-time As A House Painter In Henderson County, To Cornell, Where Everybody Was A Literary Person.

The Language Poets Are Writing Only About Language Itself. The Ashbery Poets Are Writing Only About Poetry Itself. That Seems To Me A Kind Of Dead End.

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

I Have Taught Students From The New York City Area So Long I Have A Special Affinity And Rapport With Them. It Surprises Me Sometimes That There Are Students From Anywhere Else.

The Black Mountain Poet I Like Most Is The Early Creeley. Those Early Poems Seem Very Lyrical And Very Traditional, With A Lot Of Voice And Character.