“There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.”
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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
