Can It Be That Even As One

I Wish Someone Had Told Me That My Stories Are Really Mine To Tell. In Other Words, Anything That I Think Is Important Or That Has Moved Me Has The Ability To Move Somebody Else.

It's The Combination Of The Intimate And The Public That I Find So Exciting About Being Poet Laureate.

Poetry Of All The Forms Of Literature I Think Is The Most Suited For The Digital Age And For The Shorter Attention Spans And All Of That. It Twitters Very Easily, Some Lyric Poems And It's Very Easy To Zip A Poem To Someone, So That's One Of The Things I Think Is Wonderful About Poetry In The Digital Age.

In Working On A Poem, I Love To Revise. Lots Of Younger Poets Don't Enjoy This, But In The Process Of Revision I Discover Things

I Think If You Put Something In A File That Says "war Poems" Or "love Poems" That You Already Restrict The Way In Which The Poem Might Move.