Young Writers Find Their First

If People Associate Me With A Region, That's Fine With Me.

Fiction Is About Intimacy With Characters, Events, Places.

Neither Of My Parents Has Been Very Sensitive About My Writing.

One Of The Biggest Changes That Ever Occurred In My Life Was Going From The Isolation Of Working Part-time As A House Painter In Henderson County, To Cornell, Where Everybody Was A Literary Person.

If A Poem Is Not Memorable, There's Probably Something Wrong. One Of The Problems Of Free Verse Is That Much Of The Free Verse Poetry Is Not Memorable.