[observation, 2014] I've been to places where there is a poet laureate for every ZIP code. The country is crawling with them. I think it's out of control.
[on being asked to memorialize 911 in poetry] They said I could do what I wanted, but then a voice chimed in and said 'Please mention the first responders and their heroic job, and oh, also say something positive about the future of the country'.