My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of

Back Then, I Couldn't Have Left A Poem A Year And Gone Back To It.

My Sense Of A Poem - My Notion Of How You Revise - Is: You Get Yourself Into A State Where What You Are Intensely Conscious Of Is Not Why You Wrote It Or How You Wrote It, But What You Wrote.

How Weightless/ Words Are When Nothing Will Do.

There'll Always Be Working People In My Poems Because I Grew Up With Them, And I Am A Poet Of Memory.

Meet Some People Who Care About Poetry The Way You Do. You'll Have That Readership. Keep Going Until You Know You're Doing Work That's Worthy. And Then See What Happens. That's My Advice.