I Get So Lonely Sometimes, I Could

Poetry Is For Me Eucharistic. You Take Someone Else's Suffering Into Your Body, Their Passion Comes Into Your Body, And In Doing That You Commune, You Take Communion, You Make A Community With Others.

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

The Failures Of Other Genres To Provide An Emotional Connection With Some Of Their Characters And Narratives Gives Memoir A Toehold.

A Pool Game Mixes Ritual With Geometry.

In My Godless Household, Poems Were The Closest We Came To Sacred Speech -- The Only Prayers Said.