You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to answer the question that way, I think that poetry is gonna catch up with that technology quite soon.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.