“Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotion...” — Edward Hirsch Quote

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

Growth and maturation isn't celebrated or isn't talked about in society now. Is it possible that I was a bad teammate in 2012? Sure. Is it also possible that I'm a good teammate in 2019? Sure.

The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

I was raised in an upbringing where I was celebrated - an upbringing where I was never made to feel like I should be anything other than myself. I'm lucky that I never felt a pressure to be what anybody's idea of what a cisgender gay man is supposed to be, but I definitely recognize it.