The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
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There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirty-six-line poem. It seemed like the poem came back the next day: no letter, nothing.
It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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