When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“The things about you I appreciate May seem indelicate: I'd like to find you in the shower And chase the soap for half an… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover,… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
