My Mother Carried On And Supported Us;

My Sense Of A Poem - My Notion Of How You Revise - Is: You Get Yourself Into A State Where What You Are Intensely Conscious Of Is Not Why You Wrote It Or How You Wrote It, But What You Wrote.

Meet Some People Who Care About Poetry The Way You Do. You'll Have That Readership. Keep Going Until You Know You're Doing Work That's Worthy. And Then See What Happens. That's My Advice.

For Sure I Once Thought Of Myself As The Poet Who Would Save The Ordinary From Oblivion.

My Father Died When I Was Five, But I Grew Up In A Strong Family.

My Earliest Poems Were A Way Of Talking To Somebody. I Suppose To Myself.