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One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world, and I think so do poets.

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.

I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.

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