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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about ...more

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You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that...more

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the ...more

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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

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I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, b...more