When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.