The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.Robert Morgan
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
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With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another 543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.
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