Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

I love Hindi films.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.