A. R. Ammons

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time – as with a sonnet – the…

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars…

If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague…

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience…

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns…

I am grateful for – though I can’t keep up with – the flood of articles, theses…

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all…

That’s a wonderful change that’s taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if…

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that…

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more…

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two…