Who Gets To Choose What Battle Takes

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.

The Pleasure That I Take In Writing Gets Me Interested In Writing A Poem. It's Not A Statement About What I Think Anybody Else Should Be Doing. For Me, It's An Interesting Tension Between Interior And Exterior.

Perhaps First And Foremost Is The Challenge Of Taking What I Find As A Reader And Making It Into A Poem That, Primarily, Has To Be A Plausible Poem In English.

Women Love A Sick Child Or A Healthy Animal; A Man Who Is Both Itches Them Like An Incubus.

I'm Alternatingly Brilliant And Witless-and Sleepless: Bed Is Just A Swamp To Roll In.