The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If self is a location, so is love.