Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.