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 worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

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

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.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.

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