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.

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

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

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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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.