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"I try when I can to write before talking in the morning, just scrawling, basically, on paper until my hand outstrips my brain and whatever wants to appear appears." - Margaret Ross #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"Isn’t that what poetry writing is like? Navigating a new floor plan without any lights? Or building the house itself as you wander through bare boards and beams?" - Derek Mong #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"The line holds its own bit of breath. I follow the line. I mull over the line to locate the means and meet the material." -Dong Li (@PoetDongLi) #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/oGXWUFSitr
"You have to learn to let some things pass through you into the room of the poem, so they can be perceived. It took me a long time to learn how to do that, and I have to relearn it every time I write a poem." #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"Whenever I get a glimmer of a poem, I experiment with the little I have, so as to suss out what shape—call it form—it seems to want or need." - Carol Moldaw #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"Home is a great intimacy for me. Home is family, it is my siblings, my parents, and my wife, Lorna, and my children, and the communities that have shaped me by welcoming me and keeping me." -Kwame Dawes #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"I keep my expectations extremely low so that all I have to do is write a certain number of pages a day, regardless of quality." - Catherine Barnett #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"When I was an undergraduate, my two passionate loves were Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich, each of whom seemed to propose a different poetics." - Rick Barot (@BarotRick) #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"Poetry begins with the sculpting of silence through breath. The poem is not conveying information or narrative or even meaning necessarily; it’s mediating an embodied experience." -- Zoë Hitzig (@zhitzig) #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/1oJ9ECLg8L
"I came to the pastoral elegy by wondering: What is the mode that will help me grieve? I’m not looking for closure, just a way to get through, to continue living among the dying." - Alan Felsenthal #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/3UadUJApbx
"In my poems, I’m interested in the relief of verbalization, of giving in to an impulse, and also in the tension created by obfuscating this urge." - @madeleinecrave_ #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"I am drawn to poems that enact silence in the form of white space, redaction, minimalism, and mystery. Silence in these ways is often the clearest space for the reader to enter." - Callie Siskel #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"I tried to restart my writing in 1992 in a wilder way, to save myself. That is, I tried to overcome mysophobia by embracing words of all categories, including those unpoetical expressions." - Xi Chuan #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/s0hXdDm9Hl
"To write for me has been always a process, first, of listening, not speaking; I wait for word-following words, for image-following sentences, for tone-following tones." - Jane Hirshfield #ShortConvosWithPoets @ilya_poet https://t.co/nBYcEciphB
"I think that poetry wants an adversary, formal or actual, it doesn’t really matter: a constraint, a limit, an enemy (or a friend—the best friends we can have are adversaries, kind adversaries)." - Timmy Straw #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7
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"When I encounter an article in a line of a poem, that article has a special, felt identity and isn't a mere function of grammar; it's doing a kind of revelatory work, which matters to the life of that line." - Ishion Hutchinson #ShortConvosWithPoets
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"The winter after he died, I had made a sort of remembrance of my brother by pasting and gluing and painting the pages of an empty book, which I passed around to friends, without expectation of publishing it." - Anne Carson #ShortConvosWithPoets
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Of all our short conversations with poets, this one with the great Gary Snyder is easily the shortest. #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/CXaSxtR90o
"The gesture of a plant arises from the same need as its color, just as the tune of a poem delivers the same message as its image." - Alice Oswald #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/MDC2qwPamR
"The sea of my birthplace is the thing that most inspires me to write. It is the rhythm I imagine lapping behind the line of every poem." - Safiya Sinclair (@SafiyaSinclair) #ShortConvosWithPoets @rudemechanical7 https://t.co/OQJqpm8iaD
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