I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.