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Famous Interviewer Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Interviewer poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous interviewer poems. These examples illustrate what a famous interviewer poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Duhamel, Denise
...eels a pull to the Lower East Side,
wanders towards places where I am, but not knowing me,
 doesn't know why. 

One interviewer asks if he wishes he were a woman.
Aha! I read on with passion: and a poet?—I bet you'd like
 that—
You wouldn't have to sing anymore, do those tiring tours.
George, we could switch. You could come live at my place,
have some privacy, regain your sense of self. 

So I begin my letter. Dear Boy George,
Do you ever sit and wonde...Read more of this...



by Lehman, David
...g younger than fifty.

At dawn I returned to draft headquarters. I was eighteen
And counting backwards. The interviewer asked one loaded
Question after another, such as why I often read the middle
Of novels, ignoring their beginnings and their ends. when
Had I decided to volunteer for intelligence work? "In bed
With a broad," I answered, with locker-room bravado. The truth was, jobs

Were scarce, and working on Operation Memory was better than no job
At al...Read more of this...

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