But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

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• Diane Wakoski:

  High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from

• Diane Wakoski:

  I am not political as a person.

• Diane Wakoski:

  I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

• Diane Wakoski:

  Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish to

• Diane Wakoski:

  Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

• Diane Wakoski:

  Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of the

• Diane Wakoski:

  I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, althoug

• Diane Wakoski:

  I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing

• Diane Wakoski:

  I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of

• Diane Wakoski:

  My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women c