Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.