Poetry Connects You To Yourself, To The

I Always Loved Science. And In Fact, I Got A Science Award In High School. I Mean, I Loved Science, But I Think I Loved Literature More.

There Are Distinct Duties Of A Poet Laureate. I Plan A Reading Series At The Library Of Congress And Advise The Librarian. The Rest Is How I Want To Promote Poetry

Have You Ever Heard A Good Joke? If You've Ever Heard Someone Just Right, With The Right Pacing, Then You're Already On The Way To Poetry. It's About Using Words In Very Precise Ways And Using Gesture.

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.

The Poetry That Sustains Me Is When I Feel That, For A Minute, The Clouds Have Parted And I've Seen Ecstasy Or Something