Diane Wakoski

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet’s…

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry…

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted…

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be…

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus…

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting…

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground…

I’m perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it’s all women. I…

I don’t like political poetry, and I don’t write it. If this question was pointing…

But I don’t think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue…

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with…

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal…

I think I’m a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have…

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one’s geographic landscape, sometimes out…

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of…