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

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

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

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 wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

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

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