The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.