American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.

American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.