The Gift Of Writing Is To Be

Poetry Cannot Afford To Lose Its Fundamentally Self-delighting Inventiveness, Its Joy In Being A Process Of Language As Well As A Representation Of Things In The World.

Im A Firm Believer In Learning By Heart.

There Is Risk And Truth To Yourselves And The World Before You.

Two Buckets Were Easier Carried Than One. / I Grew Up In Between.

My Teaching Was Animated By What I Was Reading And Being Excited By As A Poet.