Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
