Associates Quote by Anna Journey

I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of…

— Matthew Zapruder

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

— Matthea Harvey

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the…

— Tennessee Williams

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

The title is the first thing that I have. Then when I have that title, I have to make sure that the title...is like,…

— Melanie Martinez

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the…

— Kim Edwards

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in…

— Natasha Trethewey

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern…

— Andrew Motion

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire…

— Edward Hirsch

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry