I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

Time passes. That's for sure.