I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

"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.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.