I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.
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We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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