Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.