PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

I am not political as a person.