Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In….

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in a different language when I'm w….

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems..

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page….

Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and I find out that I need to know ….

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the most important tools missing is the….

We're all vulnerable in our various ways, and what we are physically, our bodies, is what has developed with the goal of keeping that life safe and i….

I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation." I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we ….

People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even if the terms….

How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from….

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written..

In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natu….

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to….

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various k….

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems..

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring….

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called ly….

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been ….

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions..

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection..

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans..