What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
I’ve been blessed to have met and worked with a good number of highly accomplished poets from both my graduate school days and my professional life. Campbell McGrath provided some of the absolute best guidance with some of my early poetic work. He pointed me through the notion of the lyric consciousness of a poem and how the moment within the poem must live and breathe. Maura Stanton and Catherine Bowman had massive influence over me as a young poet. Poets that I’ve met only through their work have as been absolutely crucial to sense of poetry include Gerald Vizenor, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Natalie Diaz, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
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