When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my paren….

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that ….

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight….

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge..

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space.

I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And ….

Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We….

There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ sim….

First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The….

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and ….

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it..

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted….

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth..

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision..

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem..

The act of making poetry is an act of hope..

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it..