Lucky Quote by John Cooper Clarke

There was actually a rock poetry class at my school.

— Michael Penn

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor,…

— Denise Duhamel

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

— Michael Pena

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time.…

— Maxine Peake

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose…

— Edward Hirsch

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

— Mary Gordon

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

— Joan Larkin

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

— Matt de la Pena

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

— Jim Jarmusch

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

— Casey Wilson