Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you every now and then. Try to locate your own frequency, knowing that one year your voice is on… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way.… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them.… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share
