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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

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

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.