If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

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

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.

When I was young, I was older than I am today.