Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

Libraries are where it all begins.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.