I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

I think that the people who really accomplish things in this world have to have a little bit of crazy in them.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.