The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar is the test of their power.
I wanted to reimagine the role in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents events preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.