I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry