I'm not sure of any direct influence, but some of my most successful poems are short poems. They have kind of a distilled focus, like Dickinson. They're very elliptical. She is quite elliptical - she distills down to the core. But my poetry doesn't sound like Dickinson's.

The poems in the fifth section are from a book I'm trying to get published.

I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.

When the artists are painting live with the musicians playing, both of them get influence from each other. People also want to stick around a lot longer when an artist is doing something live. Artists have sold a lot more artwork than they normally would.

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

We came down to see the steam cars and there were more than just steam cars, but old gasoline-powered cars and a replica of the Stanley Steamer that set the record 100 years ago.