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...
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.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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 creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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.
character events fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
people fine associates
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
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.
book home use
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
powerful writing southern
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
writing people doubt
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
writing southern narrative
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
people labels use
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
break-through asian watches
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.