For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

Think of the road as a kind of zone and a site of incredible diversity.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.