Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

All memory is fiction.