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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 8th, 1940

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