Who inspires you to write?
Young poets and young writers inspire me because I know that it’s so difficult to start out. I have tenure, I have some measure of economic security, I have the summers off, and I have readers, not a lot of readers, but I have enough readers, so I feel that when I publish something, it’ll be read. When you start out, you don’t have any of those things. It’s so precarious. I don’t know if I would have the courage to do it today.