I Have Experienced Healing Through Other Writers'

Good Writing Gives Energy, Whatever It Is About.

Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't Say I Belong To An Especially Anglophone Community.

My Mother Was Told She Couldn't Go To Medical School Because She Was A Woman And A Jew. So She Became A Teacher In The New York City Public School System.

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.

I Try To Write Everyday. I Do That Much Better Over Here Than When I'm Teaching. I Always Rewrite, Usually Fairly Close-on Which Is To Say First Draft, Then Put It Aside For 24 Hours Then More Drafts.