I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

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

Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.