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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.