How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.