Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.