I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.