My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous 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.
I write what's given me to write.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.