Attention Quote by Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Adrienne Rich

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

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

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

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down…

— Kevin Keck

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

— Edward Hirsch

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

— Robert Morgan