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I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

Look, I want to say,
The worst thing you can imagine has already
Zipped up its coat and is heading back
Up the road to wherever it came from.

I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,