The Future Of Publishing Lies With The

For Even Bad Poetry Has Relevance For What It Does Not Say For What It Leaves Out.

In Plato's Republic, Poets Were Considered Subversive, A Danger To The Republic. I Kind Of Relish That Role. So I See My Present Role As A Gadfly, To Use My Soapbox To Promote My Various Ideas And Obsesions.

Anyone Who Saw Nagasaki Would Suddenly Realize That They'd Been Kept In The Dark By The United States Government As To What Atomic Bombs Can Do.

I Certainly Was Surprised To Be Named Poet Laureate Of This Far-out City On The Left Side Of The World, And I Gratefully Accept, For As I Told The Mayor, "how Could I Refuse?" I'd Rather Be Poet Laureate Of San Francisco Than Anywhere Because This City Has Always Been A Poetic Center, A Frontier For Free Poetic Life, With Perhaps More Poets And More Poetry Readers Than Any City In The World.

If You're Too Open-minded; Your Brains Will Fall Out.