So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary... →
Rose Tremain
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native... →
Natasha Trethewey
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my... →
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I... →
Once or twice I've had a dream where a poem is fully formed. But I spend years revising a single poem. It usually starts with a line, or maybe an... →
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly?... →
Lee Trevino
If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.