“I talk to my students a lot about how writing poetry, how creating a language that surprises, depends on being able to predict what your reader will have an understanding of, and being able to tell when your reader knows the end of the sentence, like when you say, ‘I’m outside and it’s raining—,’ if you say ‘cats,’ they know what comes next. So, you play on that expectation.”
— francine j. harris, interviewed by Kaveh Akbar for Divedapper

















