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

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

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

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

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

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