I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fundamentalist Christian background that was very much like a cult and of course they struggle to get to Naropa. And they have cut themselves off. They don't look back.
World War II synchronizes things for a lot of people. There's a kind of wakeup call.
The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.
When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.
If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
"I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry."
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