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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.