I wonder what it means about American literary culture and…

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

“How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of…

— Will Self

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

— Macaulay Culkin

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I hear that…

— Charles Bukowski

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets…

— John Burnside

If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City. So therefore,…

— Ted Kooser

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to…

— Conrad Aiken

I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't…

— Christian Wiman

In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current…

— Stephen Burt

Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic,…

— Stephen Burt

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know…

— Sam Hamill

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears).…

— Frank O'Hara