Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
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.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
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