Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible as a contemporary poet.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it...
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make...
A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a...
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the...
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years....
Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American...
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was...
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
You may not like the humor but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
I think superheroes are heroes with flaws and in their flaws there is a...
Incongruity they say is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's...
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written Republican...
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They...