"I write the best poems I can for a few years, using whatever techniques I can summon, from writing exercises to just sitting and staring at a blank piece of paper until something happens. Then at some point after a few years I take a look at the pile of poems and very strictly put aside anything I think isn’t up to the highest standards, and see what I have. If there is a book there it is done. If not, I keep working until it is." Matthew Zapruder in conversation with Carly Joy Miller, Katie Fagan, and Jen Marshall Lagedrost • Hinged

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