If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.