Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

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

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

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

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

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