One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditio….

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life y….

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers..

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them..

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of g….

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something ….

Life on the planet is born of woman..

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'.

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, i….

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do no….

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we….

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different f….

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do wi….

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery..

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell..

I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes,….

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing ….

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry..

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps th….

Marriage is lonelier than solitude..