Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

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.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

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

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

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

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.