How to Write

Your life is like a wallet full of one-hour bills.

Poetry likes that kind of intelligence. Poetry likes the rhythms of your body and the movements of your body. I realized that, for me as a poet, the more physical intelligence I could put in my poems, the better they were.

That’s because the one thing we have in common is the same body. We have hearts and lungs, and the kind of rhythms of living are... See more