To praise Chola kings and adore the gods, Tamil poets developed notions of sainthood, history and even magical realism.

Joyce saw all kinds of artists come and go over the years; composers, sculptors, painters, performance artists, poets and art professors.

Publications like The New Yorker started fact-checking in 1927 “following the publication of an egregiously inaccurate profile of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.”

The thing I love about kind internal self-talk is that as you start to bring a little kindness into the equation, you then start to become like one of my favorite Persian poets, Hafiz.

My brother used to joke: “Until when can someone be considered a young poet? Until age 50.”