I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct..

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future..

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive..

Obviously, if I'm reading in Vienna or Venezuela or Italy, there's the issue of language, and I will make choices that are more sound oriented. Or I'….

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an ….

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act..

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst..

There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture ….

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Ke….

When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lynd….

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a ca….

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it..

We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness..

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?.

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them..

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years..

I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being ab….

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel..

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide..

I had a student some years ago whose father had worked on the Manhattan Project. I had a student who had to escape this very intense, born-again fund….

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from a….