Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English…

Pound’s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a…

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have…

I think that it’s more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be…

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea…

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from…

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers…

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in…

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor. It would make…

I don’t think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly…

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away…

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only…

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think…

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much…

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that…