I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then I'd come home - and sometimes it's legible, sometimes not - I typed the poem up. So I have a new, yet to be published, collection of poems now. It's called Walker's Alphabet, and among other things, it is about walking. My most recent collection of poems in 2010, incidentally, was titled WALKING backwards.

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

You need to be distracted.

I want, I want, I want! We never grow out of it somehow. Unless we become Buddhists, maybe.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

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

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