My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things but they are the state of human existence.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
