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...
rhyming facts blank
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
reading writing decision
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
honesty tough sense-of-humor
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
art thinking way
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
character voice hiking
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
writing curiosity way
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
house isolation painter
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
technique famous-writers make-sense
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
writing language kind
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
distance objectivity perspective
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
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We arrived at the conclusion that the objective conditions do not exist for meaningful discussion because (Mugabe's party) ZANU-PF is embarking on mass retribution against our members in the rural areas.
dominated everybody played
We really dominated the game. Everybody played pretty solid. We had about 12 shots, and they only had three. Their goalie must have made about 10 saves.
laid last qualified responses tech three within workers
We qualified 700 tech workers who've been laid off within the last three years, ... and used their responses exclusively.
bright win
We will do all we can to win now, ... And we've got a bright future.