There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. - Cate Marvin

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Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade. . . to places like famine and war and. . . I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Cate Marvin

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

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I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.

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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

Certain, Character, Lives, Motivation, Writing

Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.

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The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career. " My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

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