I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman Copy Share Image
“HER BARBED-WIRE SMILE LIFTED YOU TO HEAVEN BUT I HAVE TO ASK DID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE” — Amy King Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Someone said, in a simplistic way maybe, that all American poetry is either cooked or raw, and if it's cooked, it comes… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mr Rutger cornet de Groot. Never read any American poetry or any other foreign poetry, which is why he always mentions 2… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like truth: on one level it simply is, and as such it is available to anyone. Anyone, that is, who… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
