In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes...
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it...
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We...
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make...
A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a...
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can...
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the...
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years....
Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American...
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober he was mostly in...
To the former child migrants who came to Australia from a home far away led...
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going what I'm doing.
You know you go home and you try on a new mascara and I guess a male CEO...
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you...
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward...
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home the only...
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and...