There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel very connected to poets across the country.
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
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.
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.