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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

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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.

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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

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I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

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I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

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I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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