Canon Quote by Elaine Equi

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

— James Broughton

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

— Rachel Zucker

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

— Steve Martin

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The…

— Sarah Manguso

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the…

— Matthea Harvey

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins