"Who is the ideal reader? God only knows."

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"I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff."

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"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."

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"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."

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