Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

Time passes. That's for sure.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.