I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

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

I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

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