Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. – Robert Morgan
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. – Robert Morgan
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We dont want it to be something the majority is voting on. I dont think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. – Jesse Tyler Ferguson