Everyone Thinks They're Going To Write One

Paris Is A Wonderful City. I Can't Say I Belong To An Especially Anglophone Community.

I've Been An Inveterate Reader Of Literary Magazines Since I Was A Teenager. There Are Always Discoveries. You're Sitting In Your Easy Chair, Reading; You Realize You've Read A Story Or A Group Of Poems Four Times, And You Know, Yes, I Want To Go Farther With This Writer.

My Mother Was Told She Couldn't Go To Medical School Because She Was A Woman And A Jew. So She Became A Teacher In The New York City Public School System.

I Wonder What It Means About American Literary Culture And Its Transmission When I Consider The Number Of American Poets Who Earn Their Living Teaching Creative Writing In Universities. I've Ended Up Doing That Myself.

I Don't Think It's By Accident That I Was First Attracted To Translating Two French Women Poets.