And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a...
Writing is my obsession my passion. My relationship with it is one of the...
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside...
What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift homeless....
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years but that's how...
I am politically pro-choice but personally pro-life. I have my faith but...
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.