![]() ![]() In some senses my writing has evolved far beyond those early poems, but in another sense I am still writing them. ![]() They were still young poems, but in them I began to identify the subject matter from which my poetry would spring-American culture and commerce and discourse and dissonance, the search for place and community in our contemporary world. Parker - Las VegasĬampbell McGrath: In graduate school I began to write a series of “Capitalist Poems,” beginning with “Capitalist Poem #5.” Those poems for me mark the beginning of my “authentic” voice as a poet. (2008)ĭo you recall the poem, or group of poems, you wrote when you felt like you were no longer writing young poems or poems which you were unsure about? M. ![]() His Poets Q & A appears on this website and his poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issues 10 and 15. Campbell McGrath has received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize and the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” Seven Notebooks (2008), his eighth book of poems, was recently published by Ecco Press. ![]()
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