The Great Watershed Of Modern Poetry Is

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.

In The Best Fiction, The Language Itself Can Become Almost Invisible.

I Don't Think American Poetry Has Gotten Any Better In The Past 35 Years. Oddly Enough, Creative Writing Programs Seem To Have Been Good For Fiction, And I Would Not Have Predicted That.

The Fact That Something Is In A Rhymed Form Or In Blank Verse Will Not Make It Good Poetry.

You Have To Really Dive Deep Back Into Yourself And Get Rid Of So Much Modern Analytical Categorization. It's One Of The Great Things Poetry Does.