Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

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.

If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.