The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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 was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.