Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

We are dedicated to seeing that his writings live. I was knocked out by his poetry and fiction writing. We're trying to get kids to keep on opening his books.

Typically we don't see many applicants from the coast, but it has been building since Katrina.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.