I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.