The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.