You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.