As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

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