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

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

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.

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?