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I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost…

— Victoria Chang

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the…

— Mary Oliver

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two…

— Corin Nemec

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or…

— Tony Harrison

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor,…

— Denise Duhamel

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

— Diane Wakoski

I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep…

— Elaine Equi

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

— Tomi Adeyemi

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets,…

— Sylvia Plath