I think that the job of poetry its political job is to refresh the idea of justice which is going dead in us all the time.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there I know there will be people who will listen.

As for political poetry as it's usually defined it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that I think it is missing the point of the American tradition which is always apolitical even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Because in fact women feminists do read my poetry and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.

But I am not political in the current events sense and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.