I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. . . . Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems.