I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.