The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

I thought about leaving because of our differences, but I loved the way you lived your life, and that was enough to make me fall in love.