There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

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

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

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

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

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