I write what's given me to write.
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.Philip Levine
It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.
Philip Levine
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
Philip Levine
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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I don't know how much the music has influenced my writing I know it's inspired me, and the young jazz musicians I went to school with in Detroit, Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, Bess Bonier, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, were the first people I knew who were living the creative lives of artists.
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When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.
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