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.

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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...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

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...

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...

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of...

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 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 woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 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...

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are...

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are...