Interview With A Poet

[Angeline]

Here is a (fairly) recent interview with Billy Collins, a fine poet and former US Poet Laureate. His comments about poetry versus longer prose works and the difficulty of writing on demand are especially interesting.

If you enjoy the interview, check out his poetry: he's really good and fun to read.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136...music-tables-his-new-collection-of-short-poem

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

Here is a (fairly) recent interview with Billy Collins, a fine poet and former US Poet Laureate. His comments about poetry versus longer prose works and the difficulty of writing on demand are especially interesting.

If you enjoy the interview, check out his poetry: he's really good and fun to read.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136...music-tables-his-new-collection-of-short-poem

(7:13) "In poetry, one of the - uh, I mean, what I enjoy - one of the things I enjoy about poetry - is that it doesn't care about the topic. It wants to lose the topic."