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 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.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

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

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.