When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with?' And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.