I’m writing this lecture in the middle of a particular night in my particular life. This is relevant. Three years ago I was asked to write these lectures by the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, and it seemed impossible. I’d never given lectures. I imagined that giving a lecture required me to tell other people what I think or what I know, which is not really my style. Or, perhaps giving lectures would require me to tell people what they should think, which is really not my style. What is my style, you wonder? I’m getting to that.
Stay with me, stay in the present, this moment, for a moment. I am, at this particular time in my particular life, the mother of three sons now 16, 14, and 8. This is…
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The American Poetry Review (Digital) - 1 Issue, May/June 2019