Focus Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections wherever they…

— Jay-Z

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

— Louis Dudek

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

A really good poem is full of music.

— Eric Whitacre

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and…

— John Keats

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close…

— Pattiann Rogers

I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions,…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez