But by the time they became 12 or 14, I couldn’t put them in my poems anymore. Seven Notebooks was the last book my kids were majorly in. Do you still write about your kids, now that they’re older? Your wife (Elizabeth Lichtenstein, AB’84) and kids appear in your poems sometimes. All my life what I’ve wanted to do is write poetry. So I get up at 6:30, I drive the carpool, then I go to my office at 8 a.m., and I don’t come down until 6 p.m., day after day. My writing goes through cycles, depending on how busy I am with family and teaching and life. I don’t want to be reliant on any particular ritual. They do certain rituals and have certain superstitions. “Capitalist Poem #5” appears in the Winter 2014 issue of the Core.ĭo you have any writing rituals or routines? McGrath, who won a McArthur “genius” award in 1999, teaches creative writing at Florida International University. Campbell McGrath, AB’84, has published nine poetry collections, including In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys (2012), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2009), Seven Notebooks (2008), and Spring Comes to Chicago (1996).
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