The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

My country tears of thee.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.