Robert, what about you? When did you start writing and why do you write?

I mean, I started writing when I was a kid, really.

I actually still have in my office, I use it as an illustration sometimes about the importance of youth programs, but I have this little booklet of poems that I wrote, I think, in the third or fourth grade or something.

It's called Poems of All Kinds.

It's very cute.

And it's clear that it was written for a poetry, you know, unit school or something.

There were some haikus, there were a lot of limericks.

But first, can you talk a bit about the Poets House mission?