Great Regulars: I interviewed her several times and she would

be very funny, witty sort of raconteur and she could hold course and have the room, laughing and laughing. But the minute you said to her how deeply wonderful you thought her music was, or the minute you compared her to a real sort of classic talent like Billie Holiday or somebody like that, she would become very small and nervous, and sort of mutter, and really be deeply uncomfortable with praise. [--Sophie Heawood]

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Conversation: Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011

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[Jeffrey Yang:] With nature poetry, a lot of these poems might not come directly out of, say, a natural disaster, but a lot of the poems, I think, relate to what is happening. And a lot of it is about how we heal in a lot of ways from these disasters.

How does our mind function in nature and what--how is this a part of nature? A lot of these poems kind of speak to that as well.

This is William Everson's poem "We in the Fields."

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems

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