We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness..

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them. And it can be grand and vast and you can create a realm where you ….

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

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation..

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to wo….

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you ne….

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces..

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well..

How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of ….

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 ….

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'….

The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energ….

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

In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends of the earth. And I live fr….

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it was some t….

I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorpo….

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and….

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

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain ki….

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

We need a world-wide Department of Peace..