A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.