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Anne Carson, Essay on What I Think About Most — Poetry Letters by Huck Gutman

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We were in Vancouver where I had been invited to participate on a panel about the Fulbright Fellowship program. My wife accompanied me to the huge, 5000-strong convention of the AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. There were more attendees, people who taught creative writing, than there are buyers for poetry books or works of cutting-edge fiction. I did my thing, talking about my experience teaching American poetry in Calcutta on a Fulbright grant. One of the high points of my life. ‘You can do this too,’ I told the audience which attended the panel. Then we were free to wander the city and the conference. Vancouver is a great city for Asian food. We had Korean food, Japanese food, Vietnamese food, one restaurant better than the next. The downtown was a city of glass skyscrapers, a gathering of post-modern palaces. We also attended, as you might imagine, a good number of poetry readings at the convention, some good, some not so good

Anne Carson, “Essay on What I Think About Most” May 26 Written By Huck Gutman Anne Carson Print This Paper We were in Vancouver where I had been invited to participate on a panel about the Fulbright Fellowship program. My wife accompanied me to the huge, 5000-strong convention of the AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. There were more attendees, people who taught creative writing, than there are buyers for poetry books or works of cutting-edge fiction. I did my thing, talking about my experience teaching American poetry in Calcutta on a Fulbright grant. One of the high points

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