I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.

I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.