In Working On A Poem, I Love

Equality And Self-determination Should Never Be Divided In The Name Of Religious Or Ideological Fervor.

People Write Me From All Over The Country, Asking Me, And Sometimes Even Telling Me, What They Think A Poet Laureate Should Do. I Found That Immensely Valuable.

Poetry Of All The Forms Of Literature I Think Is The Most Suited For The Digital Age And For The Shorter Attention Spans And All Of That. It Twitters Very Easily, Some Lyric Poems And It's Very Easy To Zip A Poem To Someone, So That's One Of The Things I Think Is Wonderful About Poetry In The Digital Age.

Everybody Who's Anybody Longs To Be A Tree.

By Making Us Stop For A Moment, Poetry Gives Us An Opportunity To Think About Ourselves As Human Beings On This Planet And What We Mean To Each Other.