Marilyn Nelson

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.