How to Write a Public Poem

"I had to wait until it could get all into the marrow of my bones and into my fingernails, into my hair follicles," she says. "When I finally understood what I had to do, then I started writing." The poem is a good one, but not great because he didn't have enough time, Poet Laureate says. She will write another for her country: "It will be a more private poem, but it will be for my country"