The Week in Miscellany: June 24, 2011
"When you inherit a language, it does not mean you are totally in it or you are passively programmed…" "You have to be two things at once: extremely arrogant, enough to think you’re going to sit…"
The Week in Miscellany: June 17, 2011
"Oh – no one reads poetry, just a few dedicated souls” – I’m tired of that! Poetry is…" "The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else…" "I think we need to keep our old poetry institutions as well as investing in...
The Week in Miscellany: June 10, 2011
Ha. Meant to post this yesterday. But it works today just as…
The Week in Miscellany: June 3, 2011
“The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the… "When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want…"
The Week in Miscellany: May 27, 2011
I’m considering adding this to the hand-out pack for the… "I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes…" "You have to decide if you want to make operas that affect a few people deeply, or folk songs that…"
The Week in Miscellany: May 20, 2011
"I think about readiness and its relation to what I consume and make. If I skim the work of someone,…" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you…" "The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of...
The Week in Miscellany: May 13, 2011
"If I am looking for a story at all, it is in my relationship to the subject – the story that tells…" (via I Am Coming Over : The Gallery (featuring Heather… "In hindsight, everything is technique. In the moment, everything is panic and reaction. Does a…"
The Week in Miscellany: April 29, 2011
"I don’t want poetry to be just another thing to “Deal with, cope with.” Nope. The “work” is a joy…." "Four years later, my first poetry book is about to be published, I’m running poetry workshops in…"
The Week in Miscellany: April 22, 2011
Interview: Jacob Sam-La Rose at Books Actually, 20 April 2011…
The Week in Miscellany: April 15, 2011
"I have been taking photographs for 30 years now,” says Graham, a softly spoken Englishman who has…" "The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster,…"
The Week in Miscellany: April 8, 2011
"Dream strange things and make them look like truth." “If you’re not working on your best idea right now,… Guilty admission #3422: "I had no idea that sitting in the dark activates melatonin production, which in turn chemically…"