If what you want to do is make good art, decide whats good and try to imitate it.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.