Working women went through a time when they believed that.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.