I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the … - David Biespiel

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When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past. "

David Biespiel

I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

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I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

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American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

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Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

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For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

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Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

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