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Teaching Writing Over The Years Intrudes On Your Own Writing In Important Ways, Taking Away Some Of The Excitement Of Poetry.

I Love To Create Interesting Textures With Language. You Can Do It As Long As It Seems Like A Discovery.

I Don't Think American Poetry Has Gotten Any Better In The Past 35 Years. Oddly Enough, Creative Writing Programs Seem To Have Been Good For Fiction, And I Would Not Have Predicted That.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.

The Fact That Something Is In A Rhymed Form Or In Blank Verse Will Not Make It Good Poetry.