I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense ….

And the reason I am writing this on the back of a manila envelope now that they have left the train together is to tell you that when she turned to l….

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry..

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey f….

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart..

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos..

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally..

A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the r….

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain..

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that th….

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches..

Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game o….

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky..

There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. Bu….

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're ac….

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy wha….

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction..

Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease t….

No one here likes a wet dog..

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry..

Death is what makes life fun..