Day: November 8, 2008

• “The trouble with writing poetry…”

  The trouble with writing poetry is that you have readers, and the trouble with readers is that you have to listen to them after they have spent their time reading you. Mine, unless they are young poets or teachers of English, usually say one of three things. If they are relatives, they ask me why […]

  mariegauthier

  November 8, 2008

  books, poetry, Writing

  books, poetry, Robert Lowell