Anne Stevenson — American Poet

Anne Stevenson is an American-British poet and writer... (wikipedia)

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.