If you want to be a poet, you must do two things above all others.
First you must stop “wanting” to be a poet. Wanting is never satisfied; it empties you and keeps you hungry.
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Ten Haiku on American Mythology By David Escobar-Martin
“As artists and writers, we are a statement ourselves … your creativity serves a purpose for the world.” – David Escobar-Martin
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Galway Kinnell
The following October I saw Galway at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and I said to him, “I didn’t know you were going to be here!” And he said to me, “If I would have known you were going to be here, I would have baked you a cake!”
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Grace Paley
I remember waiting at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, PA, to meet Grace Paley in April 2005. I stood at the front of the greeters’ line by the escalator preparing for our first face-to-face meeting; holding her travel itinerary in my left hand while vigorously shaking my right to avoid the undesireable, obnoxious-sweaty-palm-handshake.
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Making Time to Make Things: In Conversation with MCPL Kristina Moriconi
I sat down to talk poetry with Kristina Moriconi on a recent Sunday morning. We met early over coffee, the conversation easy. When I looked at my watch to check the time, two hours had gone by.
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