My work should be seen as poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
I love to write poetry.
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Mostly, when I travel, I want to represent my own work well and let others know how I feel about poetry being an important part of life.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.