What Writing Does Is To Reveal.

The Joy Of Working At Something To Find Out What It Means To Me Is What I Grew Up With.

I Was Apprehensive. I Feared Every Time I Talked About Poetry, It Would Be Filtered Through The Lens Of Race, Sex, And Age.

To Practice Your Scales, So To Speak, In Order Play The Symphony, Is What You Have To Do As A Young Poet.

To Write For Pc Reasons, Because You Think You Ought To Be Dealing With This Subject, Is Never Going To Yield Anything That Is Really Going To Matter To Anyone Else. It Has To Matter To You.

Poetry Connects You To Yourself, To The Self That Doesn't Know How To Talk Or Negotiate.