very different poets who have been on my mind these days. In an ideal world, I would write with their ... I’ve been a Tom Waits fan. His new record is pretty good, though it caused me to dig back into his past ... read when my lovely wife insisted I do so. The audience was no more than five people, including my dog, ...
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democracy. We’ve kind of never had it. After November 2020, when Biden finally won, I allowed myself to read ... opening poem serves as a kind of gateway into the reading experience, preparing its audience for the time ... question still rings relevant today. Can you talk about how you interpret Villon’s question and how it ...
thirties and forties. It might even have been during our first conversation in Paris, when I said I’ve ... out of the blue, it seems, even though you’ve been brooding on it, living with it for years, and ... it be silly to specify just how much of a poet’s reading should be contemporary and how much from the ...
different ways. Sharon is still the big risk taker, and every time I read her work, it is like a craft ... surprising, strange, and beautiful, and it’s one of the best books I’ve read in years. TQ: One of the most ... there are some successful books that utilize it, seems like the one choice that everyone would have told ...
she had, it would have been when she was very young. Was she trying to imagine me as a father? Was she ... despite all the temporal ground you cover, I feel as I read the poem as if I’ve been locked inside a very ... reading—it was the end of the afternoon, classes must have been over for the day—then down past what seemed ...
front of that sturdy desk. Very proud. It was the sort of compliment I’d brag about when I felt stupid ... different, yeah.” She said something about how, even as a baby, I seemed smart enough to talk to like ... know. * It was 1985 or ’86 when my middle school sat us down en masse and provided each of us ...
mind?” When I read about my dying, I said something like, “It’s weird, but it’s a wonderful poem.” The ... never thought that it was my fault! JMJ: How difficult was it for her to get help? DH: When Jane and ... chemicals like the Prozac bunch, would not seem to touch her. JMJ: When I teach medical students about ...
and I gave it all up to go to school full time. And I’ve never been happier. Can you tell me how you ... thoughtful people in my program to commiserate with over the election, I think it would’ve been a miserable ... at the time who were very involved in the slam poetry scene in Chicago. I’ve always been on the ...
not a news journalist. I’m reacting not to the latest Twitter scandal and how it plays out on the ... Malaysia, London and France. I’m generally not conscious of place when I write, and every book has its own ... nostalgia, of course, and how easy it is for it to seep into your writing, but worse than nostalgia is a kind ...