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

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.

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

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

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.