American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often.… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
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… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
