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What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that...

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by...

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be...

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently...

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our...

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that...

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and...

Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the...

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there...

I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I...

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an...

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual...

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