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

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

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

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

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?