My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of fac….

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it..

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read..

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids..

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career..

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first..

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little d….

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and g….

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!.

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to acco….

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where t….

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway..

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch..

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood..

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line….

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood..

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine..

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones..

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what..

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe..

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning..