Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hackeris an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
eventually includes living longer paris
I've been in Paris as much as I could be, which includes living here for longer stretches of time, then eventually just living here tout court.
teenager reading discovery
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
teaching writing everyday
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
teaching writing mean
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
students possibility
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
challenges firsts reader
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
cities paris community
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
contradiction
Poetry dovetails contradictions.
american-poet books discussion groups ignorant might remained various ways writers
Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.
american-poet basically edited essential feminist grant literary supported
When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.