I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called beat ….

The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make a good poem even better. That's the a….

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At one point I wanted ….

When I was young I drew constantly in my sketchbooks to learn to see things. My first teacher in school, Gilbert Stone, taught me that you have to se….

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to….

Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place..