I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.