When Your Writing Is Unselfconscious, When It

When I Say What I'm Reading, This Is What I Need. I Know The Ills That Plague Me.

I Was Raised In Chicago, So Always Used Latina. It's What My Father And Brothers Called Ourselves, When We Meant The Entire Spanish-speaking Community Of Chicago.

Mexicans Don't Think Of Ghosts As Haunting You.

You Know How Sometimes You Meet Writers That Are So Full Of Themselves? They Feel Really Proud That They Wrote Something . But What They Don't Understand - And I Like To Tell This To Writers - Is That Writing Is Like Fishing. It's Just Like Fishing. If You Don't Fish That Often, You're Not Going To Catch That Many Fish.

Maybe All Pain In The World Requires Poetry.