The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.