They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if the…

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visit…

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.