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

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

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.

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.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

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.