I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
From Eileen Myles
Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.
The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.
The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.
When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
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