Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

Memories are like water.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.