Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.