As a crew of excellent workers repaired a sink and a leak in an upstairs bathroom, I read Paris Review interviews via the venerated journal's app, downloaded for free on the Ipad.
The workers banged, painted and caulked and ran machines while I read interviews with poets Anthony Hecht and John Hollander. Hollander in 1992 at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, where he was a late sub for the mortally ill Howard Nemerov, bracingly criticized my poems.
I was interested in how in the PR interview he dismissed the value of poetry-writing workshops, because he enthusiastically led such workshops at Sewanee. I found him a warm and kind man.
My poetry career also included a near brush with Hecht. I was to attend a workshop he led at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, but decided to pull out. Soon afterward, Hecht died.
The Paris Review app offers a broad selection of the journal's celebrated interviews, along with back issues and books for purchase and daily news. Speaking of apps, I am writing this on my portable Ipad keyboard, publishing through the TypePad's rather basic app.
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