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I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.
Matthea Harvey
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Matthea Harvey
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 3
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I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.
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I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.
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I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.
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I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?
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I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations.
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Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.
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I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.
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It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.
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I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric I stating things clearly or dramatically. This whole course is trying to say there are millions of ways to approach writing a poem.
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