The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

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.

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.

Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.