For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just feel blessed by this kind of opportunity that came from it. It was a kind of seed.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.