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.

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

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.