[New-Poetry] Simic Q&A

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In-Verse  Thinking 
 
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Published: February 3, 2008
As the poet  laureate of the United States, what are you doing to increase 
the public’s  interest in poetry at a time when cultural alarmists insist that 
reading is on  its way out? Poetry doesn’t need much promotion. It is doing 
quite well in this  country. I gave a reading the other night in Concord, N.H., 
with two former poet  laureates — Donald Hall and Maxine Kumin —and 740 people 
came. That’s a lot of  people! 
 
Your own work is unusually accessible and plainspoken, as the title of a  
newly published survey of your career — “Sixty Poems” — suggests. I also have  
another book coming out in a few weeks, “That Little Something.”
 
Isn’t the title overly cute? 




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