In Working On A Poem, I Love

The Library Is An Arena Of Possibility, Opening Both A Window Into The Soul And A Door Onto The World.

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.

Can It Be That Even As One Grows To Fit The Space One Lives In, One Cannot Grow Until There's Space To Grow?

It's The Combination Of The Intimate And The Public That I Find So Exciting About Being Poet Laureate.

If I Begin Writing A Poem That Means I'm Intrigued In Some Way By Whatever It's About And That If I'm Not Trying To Find Something New And Pushing The Envelope In The Poem I Can't Expect My Reader To Be Particularly Excited About It Either.