I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

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

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.