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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 26th, 1966

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