Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the… — Marilyn Hacker Books Copy Share Image
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Creative Copy Share Image
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a… — Marilyn Hacker Cities Copy Share Image
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most… — Marilyn Hacker Fairy Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Books Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured… — Marilyn Hacker Brilliant Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
