It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. Kenneth Koch aspectordinaryperception Change image and share on social
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Kenneth Koch 20s30searly share on social
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. Kenneth Koch influencepaintpart Change image and share on social
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. Kenneth Koch excitefizzyfriend Change image and share on social
