Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
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