Peter Davison conducted an interview with poet William Matthews for The Atlantic. In the excerpt below, Matthews describes how he came to write the poem “Dire Cure.” I was married to a woman who got a disastrous cancer. It took her over a year of treatment to know whether she was going to be able [...]
Posts Tagged ‘poet’
An Act of Witness
Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged cancer survivor, caretaker, poet, william matthews on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Silent World of A.R. Ammons
Posted in Writing, tagged ammons, gravelly run, poet, why write on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wish I could shed a bit more light on this interview with the late poet A.R. Ammons. All I know for certain is that the interviewer was a woman and the last question asked was: What advice would you give to aspiring young writers. Ammons said [paraphrasing] If you can possibly not write, do [...]
Overheard in Sewanee
Posted in Writing, tagged awp, poet, sewanee on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know a woman who has a mild form of autism. It’s called Asperger Syndrome. It must be really hard on her. Think what it would be like to go your whole life unable to pick up on social clues. Every day you’d see all this rejection in people’s eyes. You mean like the way [...]
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