We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
From Marilyn Hacker
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
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