"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent them to you.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.

New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.