I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

I love going to movie theaters, even in the era of movies on-demand and Netflix. When you are in a movie theater, no one can reach you by phone or other means.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."