I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who...

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and...

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exagg...

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness a...