Amid the almond and orange groves dotting the rocky coast of Southeastern Spain, Fundacion Valparaiso offers writers a glorious backdrop for serious artistic production. The biggest challenge is to tell the best story you can right now. I would write differently later, but I don't think about a roomful of people when I sit down to write. Then, it's between me and the characters. Those in the know say that poetry books get sold neither by expensive ads nor by favorable reviews in good magazines, but by the poet hitting the bricks to sell those books at readings.
Every great work starts with a first sentence.
1996 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes, and the Harvard Review Literary Prizes.