I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan
I dont think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. – Robert Morgan
I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. – Robert Morgan
I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. – Robert Morgan
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash