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.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience is when it comes in the middle.

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.