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“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl…

— Eileen Myles

“TO MY COLLABORATOR who buys the ink and paper laughs and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business this book…

— A.A. Milne

“this chair where i sit and write my poems is beat up and scratched, held together with wire, tape and hope. you figure it…

— John Yamrus

“Sketchbooks and journals are the street lamps that illuminate the artist's journey.”

— Neil Waldman

“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect…

— Yuan Mei

“There was a little sketch pad with a pink paper cover, a packet of handwritten notes in what looked like my grandmother's handwriting, a…

— Mary Simses

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every drop of…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing through the…

— Daphne du Maurier

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they…

— James Welch

“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library was the…

— Bernard Kops