News at Eleven: [Maxine Kumin is] focused on the poems

she's writing--about nature, the war in Iraq, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge--and on the necessity of remaining vigilant as a writer. "I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view."

from Christian Science Monitor: For Maxine Kumin, 'Writing is my salvation'

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