I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

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I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.