“I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.”

“Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.”

“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...”

“I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I thi...”

“Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I...”

“I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.”