I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

- Monica Youn

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

- Monica Youn

I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.

- Monica Youn

When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barr…

- Monica Youn

I can't even imagine having twins.

- Monica Youn

Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neur…

- Monica Youn

When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - re…

- Monica Youn