Will Morgan
Will Morgan
Will Morganis a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he represented District 56B, which includes portions of Dakota County in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area. He is a physics teacher at Burnsville High School in Burnsville...
chinese mathematics interest
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
people fine associates
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
character events fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
thinking essence taught
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
encouragement ideas pay
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
philosophical language preoccupation
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
movie school writing
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
teaching thinking kind
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
father personality excess
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
writing past thinking
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
young-writers stories bedtime
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
modern poetry-is watersheds
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.