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(name of respondent) Harvey Stanbrough
(pronunciation of respondent's name) stan-bro
(street address) PO Box 370
(city&state) Pittsboro IN 46167
(e.mail address) hmpeditor@hotmail.com
(po-type) Poet
(publication credits)
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ByLine, Writer's Digest, 1995 Poet's Market, The Formalist, myriad other magazines.
On Love & War & Other Fallacies, collection 1998, Nominated for 1999 Pulitzer;
Residua, collection 1998;
Lessons for a Barren Population, full-length collection, e-book, Oct 1, 1999, Hard Shell Word Factory
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(list of works) Too numerous to mention.
(contemporary poets important to respondent)
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Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky, William Baer, Len Roberts,
Richard Wilbur, Derek Walcott
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(poets of yesteryear important to respondent) W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Howard Nemerov
(tastes in poetry) Metered poetry, primarily blank verse as written and advanced by Yeats, Frost, Nemerov. Regarding Technique, without technique, without a love of Craft, there is no poetry.
(impression of contemporary poetry) Getting better, that is, further from the obscurity that drove away the poetry audience. Still lacking in craft. The advent of vers libre inadvertently caused many to think anyone at all could create poetry without ever having studied the craft. The result was the glut of non-poets flooding the market with attempts at verse their mothers told them were wonderful but that actually were lacking in even the essentials of the poetic craft.
To read "Consent?" and "Amoeba," two poems by Stanbrough, click here. By clicking here, you'll bring "The Amateurs of Heaven," a poem by Howard Nemerov that Stanbrough admires, onto your screen.
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