Cate Marvin Professions : Poet Born : 1969 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Cate Marvin I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before. Cate Marvin teaching writing thinking One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader. Cate Marvin genre term reason I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author. Cate Marvin important challenges matter Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue. Cate Marvin monologues dramatic mind The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration. Cate Marvin track book world I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals. Cate Marvin organization doe animal There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. Cate Marvin differences should ears Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done. Cate Marvin june player writing Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors