I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the … - Matthea Harvey

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Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

Matthea Harvey

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window. . . Up to now, that hasn't been mine.

Memories, Regionally, Rink, Subject, Sunset, Writing

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S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle

off my hand until I realized what it was
and began to grant it its sovereignty.

Despair, Everything, Eye, Make, Rain, Simple

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

Bewildered, Excited, Poetic, Write, Writing

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.

Class, Expand, Graphic, Interested, Photography, Trying

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Answers, Asking, Giving, Poem, Questioned

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

Brain, Difficult, Games, Sadness, Writing