I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how ….

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr….

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien….

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing..

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone..

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. ….

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time..

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into ….

I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s….

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience..

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous..

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in th….

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time..

I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adore….

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," an….

I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is ….

The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weavi….

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live..

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak..

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe..

Time passes. That's for sure..