You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.