POET | PLAYWRIGHT | TEACHING ARTIST
Quotes
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Continually Coming From
Standing on the edge of any conversation and then trying to casually take part—a sudden, disconcerting, change of topic: I experience the question “Where are you from?” as roadblock. A reminder. An unintended declaration of, “We know you don’t belong here.” More than that, the question makes me feel diminished:
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Of Insecurity, and the Unreliability of Memory
I remembered handing one full-length script to a director who weighed it in his hand, smiled and said, “You must have put a lot of work into this.” Clearly, he had no intention of reading it. I was never under the delusion that I was the Next Big Thing on the Great White Way, but…
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On Becoming Invisible
I am not on my way out of the world. I think I see much more of it now than before. I am also far less concerned with how much of the world sees “me”. I am not any more invisible than I was at 20. In fact, I am probably increasingly visible as an…
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Poetics & The Good Life: A Manifesto
Poetry is a “made thing”. But it’s not just a pleasant rhyme, not a pretty little story with tidy conflicts and a reassuring resolution. Poetry demands a representation that somehow conveys living consciousness. It’s transcendent of its own artificialness. And it is necessarily awesome, in the sense that it is also tinged with fear; if…
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The Point of Excellence?
There’s no reason to think that they were among the more interesting of the people living then, the most intelligent, the most clever. But they built the bridge: the object, conduit, magic portal that made this connection. Through some fluke of archaeology, this anonymous bit of humanity endured.
