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

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

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.

The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

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

When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!