I don’t like a kind of workshop that is about editing–I don’t want to sit there and be an editor. I don’t want to tell someone how to “fix” a poem.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace – here on earth.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
From the catbird seat, I’ve found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It’s easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
I think I felt at some point that I couldn’t understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn’t speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn’t yet found the right poems to invite me in.
I think poetry’s always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
‘NewsHour’ is very interested in poetry, but they’re also interested in not just that something’s cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
I’ve been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.