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

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.

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