Creative Writing And Literacy Go Hand And

We Tend To Be So Bombarded With Information, And We Move So Quickly, That There's A Tendency To Treat Everything On The Surface Level And Process Things Quickly. This Is Antithetical To The Kind Of Openness And Perception You Have To Have To Be Receptive To Poetry.poetry Seems To Exist In A Parallel Universe Outside Daily Life In America.

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

I Think That When A Poem Can Move Readers Across Generations And Across Its Specific Class Or Race Then It Becomes Truly Classic.

When I Was Young, I Was Older Than I Am Today.

It's Unfortunate That Sometimes In Schools, There's This Need To Have Things Quantified And Graded.