Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

And if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.

Our truth is the intersection of independent lies

I always liked strange characters.