Poetry, reading it and writing it, makes the world more visible. It shines light on things unnoticed; it makes music from empty hollows. But the trigger for me, the thing that fires off inside me, is that poems, really good ones, say what is absolutely unsayable.
Somehow, this quiet and atavistic art lives on a page but it also sings on stages and streetcorners. I've spent my life in transit between these worlds: from the hermitage where poems are shaped, into the theater of public space where they reach other people. -Frances
January 17, 2012
Poems for a lifetime: The Bled, written in memory of Gary Greaves, wins two big prizes!
The Grub Street National Book Prize in Boston and the 2011 Washington State Book Award.
The Bled is also a 2012 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Awards finalist.
October 31, 2011
I'm sponsoring a PONY POETRY CONTEST. details »