Format Quote by 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

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 just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem…

— Billy Collins

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

— Diane Wakoski

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and…

— Andrew Motion

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be like stand-up…

— Michael Rosen

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 it's important to know how to free in case you fall of what you've written, you can be able to keep going…

— Kurupt

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 that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the…

— Eleanor Catton

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

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

— Marianne Moore