Community Means People Spending Time Together Here,

I Started To Send My Work To Journals When I Was 26, Which Was Just A Question Of When I Got The Courage Up. They Were Mostly Journals I Had Been Reading For The Previous Six Or Seven Years.

We Sometimes Received - And I Would Read - 200 Manuscripts A Week. Some Of Them Were Wonderful, Some Were Terrible; Most Were Mediocre. It Was Like The Gifts Of The Good And Bad Fairies.

Good Writing Gives Energy, Whatever It Is About.

Of The Individual Poems, Some Are More Lyric And Some Are More Descriptive Or Narrative. Each Poem Is Fixed In A Moment. All Those Moments Written Or Read Together Take On The Movement And Architecture Of A Narrative.

Poetry Dovetails Contradictions.