I spoke to Smith on the phone for a few minutes as she prepared to go pick up her son from daycare. Talk me through this poem ... do good and force change? It uses repetition so wonderfully ...

If someone asked you how ... I want to take as an example Wallace Stevens’ The Idea of Order at Key West (1934), a high-modernist lyric that, arguably like all the best poems, looks before ...

If you want to change things, stand for election. Go on and do it. Put yourself out there ... If somebody had taught me how to write a poem and if I had been able to produce a complete poem ...