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 find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

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

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.