Grace Calaveri Interviews Poet Alan Britt
Alan Britt at "The Poet and the Poem" Audio Podcasts, from Webcasts & Podcasts from the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress
GC: How does your mind work? How did you know to start from the particular?
AB: That’s a good question. I’ve been doing it for so long, part of it is automatic.
GC: But to know to start in your back yard. That’s a lesson in poetry right there. That brings me to the second most important thing about poetry — is to notice things.
GC: Observation is vital.
Alan Britt at "The Poet and the Poem" Audio Podcasts, from Webcasts & Podcasts from the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress
You can also find poetry by Alan Britt in The Music of the Aztecs, edited and with an introduction by David B. Churchill.
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