- English Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look at the Mona Lisa and say we're going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place... Bugs Bunny.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.
- Burdened
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- Nov 07, 2020