Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming ….

Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it….

Any woman's death diminishes me..

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university..

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also betw….

There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope….

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language….

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again..

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust..

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel wh….

Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chap….

...you look at me like an emergency.

We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovere….

To do something very common, in my own way..

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism..

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak t….

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths..

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that….

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political..

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that the….