Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in s….

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great de….

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls..

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed,….

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder.

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

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and….

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has ….

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,….

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other..

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

A language is a map of our failures.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the dir….

Strangers are an endangered species..

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see..

The password is a flicker of an eyelash..

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in ….

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 ….

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

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her..

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope..