I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, 'I want to do that… how do you do that?'
I grew up around New York, graffiti culture.
The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.
Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.
