When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines.

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

Thank God for His goodness.

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.

Let's stop and start thinking.

Time is a part of eternity and of the same piece with it.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.