"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Confessionalism relates to writers of color. I think confessional poetry is in its way very Catholic, capital C. One of the formative… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
