I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.

There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

The students always, always surprise me.

If trees could speak they wouldn't

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.