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“When you are a writer, you are a patriot of your apartment,” Zagajewski said.

Tip to conquer American poetry: ‘Your friends are really just contacts, and you have to think of them that way. If dropping their name isn’t worth anything, you may have to ditch them’

Molly Young: Ducatis, ‘muffdiving’ and Seidel the rake poet

(Hear audio readings of Frederick Seidel’s poetry)

Approximately 86,000,000 poems will be published in the 21st century, so will the truly titanic poets fall victim to this new math of poetry?

(‘the poetry of self-promotion’)

‘In order to write a Nabati camel poem properly, you need to have not only seen one of the animals, but to have milked one, scrubbed one, maybe had one spit in your face…’