Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.

"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.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

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."