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

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.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.