I Write Short Stories, And I Wrote

I Was Apprehensive. I Feared Every Time I Talked About Poetry, It Would Be Filtered Through The Lens Of Race, Sex, And Age.

The Library Is An Arena Of Possibility, Opening Both A Window Into The Soul And A Door Onto The World.

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.

Poetry Is Language At Its Most Distilled And Most Powerful.

To Practice Your Scales, So To Speak, In Order Play The Symphony, Is What You Have To Do As A Young Poet.