I do think that all of us think in poems.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.