There were lots of eager young faces and a variety of deliveries and musical styles, among which were dub poets.

Let us go and talk with the poets. (on arriving in San Francisco)

That's been very motivating. Last year was last year. We had our problems or whatever, and we know everybody is focusing on the secondary. We want the task, and we're going to step up.

The main reason we're still in a situation where the numbers are going up is the relative youth of the Canadian population.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.