The Poetry That Sustains Me Is When

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.

I Thought, After The Pulitzer, At Least Nothing Will Surprise Me Quite That Much In My Life. And Another One Happened. It Was Quite Amazing.

Rap Is Only One End Of A Whole Spectrum Of Verbal Play And Virtuosity. Rap Is Geared For Aural Pleasure.

To Practice Your Scales, So To Speak, In Order Play The Symphony, Is What You Have To Do As A Young Poet.

I Think If You Put Something In A File That Says "war Poems" Or "love Poems" That You Already Restrict The Way In Which The Poem Might Move.