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When You Have An Idea For A Story, You Want Those Characters To Reach As Many People As You Can. I Think You Normally Think Of Prose As A Way Of Doing That. It Fits Our Time, The Culture.

I Don't Think The Creative Writing Industry Has Helped American Poetry.

Neither Of My Parents Has Been Very Sensitive About My Writing.

A Lot Of My Students Are Asian-american, And It Has Been Thrilling To Watch Them Break Through The Stereotypes Into Something Alive And Surprising.

I Think That It's More Likely That In My 60s And 70s I Will Be Writing Poetry Rather Than Fiction.