High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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

I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski