John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem.