In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
From Robert Morgan
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
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