It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet..

Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had ….

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world..

Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware of. Plus we had a good time. It's ….

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course..

Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an ….

I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This manuscript is ….

It's fun to have a crush on somebody, even one that lasts only fifteen seconds. In New York I can go down the street and have a crush on somebody com….

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size..

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be..

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall..

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for m….

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking….