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I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,

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For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

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“So much we once coveted. So much That would have saved us, but lived, Instead, its own quick span, returning To uselessness with the mute acquiescence Of shed skin. It watches us watch it: Our faulty eyes, our telltale heat, hearts Ticking through our shirts. We’re here To titter at gimcracks, the naïve tools, The replicas of replicas stacked like…

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“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in a cup at circulation, gnawed on by the entire population. the books have lived here all along, belonging for weeks at a time to one or another in the brief sequence of family names, speaking (at…

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I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

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I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I…

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One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we…

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“we like to think of it as parallel to what we know only bigger. one man against the authorities. or one man against a…

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A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The…

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I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I…

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For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

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Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere

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