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

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

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

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

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.

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

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