The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that you're in on your own journey.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I'm very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.