People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

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.

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

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.