A "fun size" interview with Stephen Dobyns

Reading Kenton Robinson's five-question short-and-sweet interview with American poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns: the easiest literary street cred you will earn all day. A sample:

After two years of being a general assignment reporter for the Detroit News, you decided that journalism "left too much out." Granted, newspaper writing is reductive, but you might have gone on to write book-length nonfiction. Why poetry?

I find it the most precise, complicated and beautiful of any written form.

Intrigued? Get the rest over here at The Day.