The future is always beginning now.
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.