The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can be measured and even predicted, it is beyond human control. All 'we' can do is create an interior space against the storm, an enclave of self-protection, though the winds of change till penetrate keyholes and 'unsealed apertures.'

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.