People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

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.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.