It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.
I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group. " I want to write down this idea of a group of artists who treat it like a band. Like, "Who made the painting?" "All four of us did. "
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.