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After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

~Marilyn Nelson

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For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn't exist any more.

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Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

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Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

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One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 26th, 1946

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