In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
Andrew Motion
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems... →
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... →
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be... →
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy... →
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way... →
Jason Mraz
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
Lisel Mueller
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that... →
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still... →