Libraries Are Where It All Begins.

I Always Loved Science. And In Fact, I Got A Science Award In High School. I Mean, I Loved Science, But I Think I Loved Literature More.

In Working On A Poem, I Love To Revise. Lots Of Younger Poets Don't Enjoy This, But In The Process Of Revision I Discover Things

Crassly Put: When I Write, I Am Trying Not To Bore Myself And My Readers.

I Was Appointed Poet Laureate. It Came Totally Out Of The Blue Because Most Poet Laureates Had Been Considerably Older Than I. It Was Not Something That I Even Had Begun To Dream About!

I Grew Up In Ohio, Where Civil-rights Accomplishments Had Already Begun To Accelerate Before Martin Luther King Appeared. In Hindsight, We Know That Many People, Black And White, Were Instrumental In Changing The Jim Crow Status Quo On All Levels.