I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems..

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to….

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked o….

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not ….