What writing does is to reveal.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

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.