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    Several jobs later, a position as a book editor at New American Library put him into the orbit of several greats of the written word. "I worked with Norman Mailer and James Baldwin and William Kennedy, a wonderful time and it helped me with my own work because I learned to be as objective looking at my own pages as I was looking at other people's books." She's a woman of verse, yet long absent from the ranks of America's power poets. Full Article at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
    I worked with Norman Mailer and James Baldwin and William Kennedy, a wonderful time and it helped me with my own work because I learned to be as objective looking at my own pages as I was looking at other people's books.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
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Book festival takes novel, poetic approach
  1. That happened almost by accident
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  2. When I do readings, I love to make people laugh ... I don't want them to just sit there and sigh. But I warn them that when they take these poems home, they'll find they've changed and they're not so funny. It's a trick. They understand there's a lot of mortality and a fair ration of despair in the poem...
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  3. You could see the whole poem on the screen. It's like I knew I was writing to a future need. ... It doesn't seem to have the surface horrors poetry has for some people. I hope I have a lot of imagery and rhythm and a ton of rhyme going on. And you can say, 'At least it's short. How bad can it be? I'll b...
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  4. Would you like to introduce yourself as a poet? People get this pained look and say, 'I just don't understand it.'
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  5. It's nothing you think about ... You are grateful for any attention you get and the respect of your colleagues and some critics. But this is not where you live in your mind. You're doing your work and hoping it will last. Everything around you, which fluctuates, is irrelevant to your intimate profession...
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  6. There's never an outline or a ton of research, they begin in an evocative state of mind
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  7. It was embarrassing to think about being a poet
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  8. As neatly as peas / in their green canoe / as discreetly as beads / strung in a row / sit drops of dew / along a blade of grass / but unattached and / subject to their weight / they slip if they accumulate / Down the green tongue / out of the morning sun / into the general damp / they're gone.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago
  9. I didn't have anything to do with the poetry community for decades ... I didn't take or teach creative writing programs, I didn't hang with poets, I didn't apprentice myself to the editor of some swank magazine. I just had to wait and hope doing the writing and trying to throw it over their transoms wou...
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 4 weeks ago

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