Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either. 

"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.