Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult po….

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pon….

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that o….

I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read..

You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write p….

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the patt….