I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.