Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

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

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.