I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
There are numerous cases of that where one of our writers discovers another...
Then of course there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has...
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology or to have...
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't...
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good...
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean...
I think that concrete poetry seems to have as far as I can see come to a...
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things but to me they're more...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.