Quotes by Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey

“Confessional poetry” is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

Fashion

Labels

Poetry Is

A lot of people are writing poems and don’t realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

Ideas

People

Writing

As a reader I don’t distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain “I” poems are confessional? It’s a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Certain

Poet

Tricky

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

Blue

Long

Suitcases

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Interesting

Particular

Prove

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

Eric

Sock

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Boundaries

Narrative

Structure

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it’s very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

Ideas

Mixing

Thinking

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

Form

Thinking

World

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative – why not a nyric or a larrative?

Believe

Why Not

Writing

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Abandoned

Animal

Answers

Art

Artist

Artistic

Artwork

Asking

Believe

Bells

Blue

Book

Borders

Boundaries

Breathing

Cake

Carnival Rides

Carnivals

Certain

Children

Class

Clouds

Concrete

Creating

Differences

Different

Disease

Drawing

Dream

Eight

Embedded

Emotion

Ends

Enough Time

Eric

Everyday

Excited

Experiments

Eye

Fashion

Father

Feet

Fiction

Fields

Flower

Form

Games

Girl

Giving

Grandmother

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Quotes by Matthea Harvey

Matthea Harvey

“Confessional poetry” is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

A lot of people are writing poems and don’t realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

As a reader I don’t distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain “I” poems are confessional? It’s a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it’s very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative – why not a nyric or a larrative?

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