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 ….

It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman with a knapsack and in blue jeans. But again I was ….

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and….

One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina ….

I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is ver….

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheritin….

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as i….

We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to make things with words and images a….

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon..

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Ho….

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

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live….

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos toge….

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”.

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psycholo….

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others..

My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek….

The color red is symbolic of passion and action, so this Vajrayogini, as she's called, comes with a mantra and she comes with these various weapons a….

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life..

I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind tha….

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience..