Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
Diane WakoskiWe are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
Diane WakoskiAmerican poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
Diane WakoskiI'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
Diane Wakoski