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

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were always crows, particularly at certain times of the year. And they're very aggressive, very visible and loud. They're not at all likable, but they have to be dealt with. They are part of the picture, the art in the morning. You cannot deny their reality.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

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.

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.