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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the…

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Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.…
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives…
I think of language as our first music.
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.…
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans…
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential…
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined,…

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