The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Creative Copy Share Image
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students'… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a… — Marilyn Hacker Cities Copy Share Image
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the… — Marilyn Hacker Courage Copy Share Image
“imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew… — Marilyn Hacker Children Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Architecture Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
