Robert Morgan

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language…

I don’t think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers…

I don’t think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry…

If a poem is not memorable, there’s probably something wrong. One of the problems of…

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a…

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not…

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read…

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject…

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when…

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as…

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences…

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form…

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can…