Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. Robert Morgan Read Quote
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. Robert Morgan Read Quote
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it’s timeless, that it reaches back. Robert Morgan Read Quote
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. Robert Morgan Read Quote
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. Robert Morgan Read Quote
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. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I love chapbooks. They’re in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can’t sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. Robert Morgan Read Quote
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt. Robert Morgan Read Quote
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. Robert Morgan Read Quote
