I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try to work on poetry every day and I do find some time every day that I can with some exceptions to work on poetry.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I've written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you're looking for.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.