I've worked part-time in independent bookstores while simultaneously teaching at night and on weekends, performing, writing for a marketing firm and trying to write poetry. I thought I could go on indefinitely like this. But you know, I can't. I need a full time job, and I know I can support myself by teaching. Now, you've got me started.
Most poets are, by nature, an insecure lot.
I believe it's difficult enough to live in the world but to live and create something, such as poetry, is heroic. One of the good things about the series is that we get a great many people just walking around the museum hearing the sound and coming in.