Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

I think Lance Berkman said it best,

I'm not a dispensationalist - I don't believe in the Rapture. I think it's an unbiblical doctrine, and in North American Christianity, at least, it is the teaching that is the root of much of our subculturalism.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.