I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poet….

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did..

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money..

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me..

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not v….

All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is dist….

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression..

Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger iss….

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts..

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps….

People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read p….

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find n….

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the trick….

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America..