... This World Gives No Room To

Any Woman's Death Diminishes Me.

False History Gets Made All Day, Any Day, The Truth Of The New Is Never On The News.

Poetry Reaches Into Places In Us That We Are Suppose To Ignore Or Mistrust, That Are Perceived As Subversive Or Non-useful, In What Is Fast Becoming Known As Global Culture.

In This Disintegrative, Technologically-manic Time, When Public Language Is So Debased, Poetry Continues To Matter Because It's The Art That Reintegrates Words, Speech, Voice, Breath, Music, Bodily Tempo, And The Powers Of The Imagination.

Change Is Not A Threat To Your Life, But An Invitation To Live.