Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
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When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.
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We felt like we had to buy some time. I sure am glad I'm not playing this week. The course is ready, it's in good shape. It's just the whole mental attitude of people. We are just so inundated. Everybody is tired and overworked. I just don't think, psychologically, the people in this area are ready to support a golf tournament. And buying the extra 30 days is going to make all the difference in the world.
ground walk
I like to just walk the ground of place I'm writing about.
benefits drivers pay
While pay and benefits were important, they weren't real drivers of retention.
fiction language invisible
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.
memorable problem poetry-is
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
new-york cities long
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.
discovery voice gestures
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
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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.
people labels use
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
writing southern narrative
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
doe modern categorization
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
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I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.