Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

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

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

Beauty, you can find it here if you look hard enough.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.