Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote