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.

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.

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

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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

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.