Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

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.

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

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.