Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

I write what's given me to write.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.