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.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

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.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

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.