Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth.
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.
I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it.
Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
I feel like since I've had a child I've become a better problem-solver, because you just have to! I have to be positive for him for sure, but it's not even about thinking about it. It's just how to make this work, and it can get pretty nutty, but it's fun too!